Word: metric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles of railway, 11,300 miles of good road. They harnessed Formosa's short, swift-flowing rivers, built a large 300,000-kilowatt hydroelectric power station at Jihyuehu (Sun-Moon Lake). For other power sources, they worked Formosa's coal deposits, believed to total 400 million metric tons, and exploited her oil, refining it at the rate of 5,000 gallons of gasoline...
South Korea's production has also taken a turn for the better. The republic, which in 1946 and 1947 imported 450,000 metric tons of cereals, is exporting 100,000 tons cf rice to Japan this year. Light industry, even though cut off from power sources in North Korea, has increased production by about 50% in the last year. New power sources are still badly needed, however; so, too, are plants to provide fertilizer for South Korea's agriculture...