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...little vault. There, reposing in a glass case, were the objects these delegates to the first postwar convention of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures had come to see: The Kilogram and The Meter, in person-the official standards of weight and measure for the world's metric system...
...Batchelor (who used to get their signals from Patterson). Sitting in with them now is a brand-newcomer, quiet, 44-year-old Donald Thompson, an American Weekly graduate. Clarke hired him to backstop Maury. Thompson expects no trouble in adapting himself to Daily News policies-plugs for the metric system, a world calendar and isolationism, slugs for Russia, the U.N. and prohibition...
...staples: bread, sunflower-seed oil, sugar, spaghetti. Few realized, or perhaps cared, that the gaucho who looked like St. George was really more of a Hjalmar Schacht. In good Nazi tradition, the export market was subsidizing the domestic. Examples: the Argentine Government bought up local wheat at $5 a metric quintal, sold some to Peruvians for $9, then gave a like amount to Argentine millers...
...Love. Lest the hungry French succumb too readily to the ardent Russians, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffrey made an opportune announcement: "During the nine months from July 1, 1945 to April 1, 1946, shipments of bread grains from the U.S. to France and French North Africa totaled 1,894,250 metric tons...
...delegates and hangers-on at the International Business Conference in Rye, N.Y., wined, dined and talked world trade in the Westchester Country Club. Typical of the tangible results: resolutions urging the universal adoption of 1) driving on the right hand side of the street; 2) a uniform measuring system (metric...