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...metric tons of steel-up 22% since September last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Comeback | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...metric tons of hard coal, an increase of 10% over 1951 but still nowhere near enough to maintain exports and feed its blast furnaces, which still rely on expensive U.S. coking coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Comeback | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

From bases on Okinawa and Japan, the Far East Bomber Command sent out 63 B-29s to bomb the plant of the Oriental Light Metals Co. (prewar production: 40,000 metric tons of aluminum a year), situated four miles from the Yalu and eight miles from the Communist's big jet-fighter base at Antung. It was the biggest single-target night air strike of the Korean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Dregs of Hope | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...quarter over Russia. ¶ Harrison Dillard, ex-Baldwin-Wallace College hurdler, who skimmed the 110-meter hurdles in an Olympic record time of 13.7 sec., closely trailed by U.S. Teammates Jack Davis and Arthur Barnard. -I Luxembourg's Joseph Barthel, who ran the 1,500-meter "metric mile" in 3 min. 45-2 sec., an Olympic record equaled by the silver medalist, Occidental College's Bob McMillen, clocked in the same time. The victory was tiny Luxembourg's first in Olympic history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The G-Man and the Russian | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

Though Bob can dash 100 meters in 0:10.7 (Olympic record: 0:10.3), a childhood case of anemia still leaves him short of the endurance required to run the metric mile. It is just about his only athletic shortcoming. He is a one-man track team, capable of winning the majority of U.S. college track meets singlehanded. His best official discus throw, 173 ft. 4 in., is 2 in. better than the Olympic record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Strength of Ten | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

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