Word: metrically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inaugurated at the world bobsledding championships that ended last week, Igls proved about 3 sec. faster for the metric mile than the Lake Placid groove. It also turned out to be a bobber's nightmare. On the second day of the two-man trials, a Swedish team piloted by Gunnar Ähs was hitting 50 m.p.h. when it zoomed into the No. 9 bend, nicknamed the Hexenkessel, or Witches' Pot. The sled slid up the 40-ft. bank, bounced down and ricocheted sickeningly from wall to wall. Ähs's upper front teeth were sheared...
...Kong, "cotton and cloth was one place where you could squeeze the people." Peking squeezed hard, cutting back cotton acreage at least 20% so that every spare clod of earth could be sown to grains. The result: China's 1962 grain harvest was up 10% to 182 million metric tons, while the cotton crop may have fallen to as low as 1,200,000 metric tons, down one-third from 1958. Further aggravating the situation at home, Peking sold huge amounts of cotton abroad to earn foreign exchange. With the onset of the chilly season, even the cloth wrapping...
...Common Market is that effete Continental customs will sap the British Way of Life. "Even before her entry," the Paris daily Le Monde observed last week, "Britain is throwing off certain of the original traits to which she has always been so attached. She speaks of adopting the metric system. Automobiles there now have bright colors; high buildings are going up in the middle of London, and worthy gentlemen no longer fear to walk about bareheaded." However, pointed out Le Monde: "The osmosis is not all in one direction. The whole Continent is now in the process of being conquered...
...background of his accomplishments during the last twelve years. At the age of 73, he took over a nation that then cost the U.S. taxpayer a billion dollars a year-and turned it into one of the world's strongest economies. West German steel production was 9 million metric tons a year (compared with 34 million today), there were 1,300,000 unemployed (none today), the average German had a monthly income of 243 marks (well over 500 today). Germany's economic recovery was largely the work of Ludwig Erhard, but it would not have been possible without...
...French coal miners, whose output is now among the lowest in Western Europe, will soon be operating a cutter-loader machine that can chisel out 45 metric tons of coal per man-day in the shaft. The new cutter-loader and other advanced French mining machinery is being sold to customers in 49 countries, including Britain...