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...Metric distances will be run for the first time in the history of the meet, but instead of the conventional 1500 and 3000 meter runs, the new distances of 1600 and 3200 meters will be used...
...first test of the spring season, members of the track squad and other aspirants will compete in the University Handicap Meet which begins tomorrow afternoon on Soldiers Field. That all the events will be run under the metric system this year makes the Meet of especial interest...
...country never knew such a harvest as that of 1933!" exulted the Dictator's official Moscow newsorgan Izvestia last week. Russians safely harvested, according to Izvestia, more grain than in any previous year in Soviet or Tsarist times, a grand and overflowing total of 89,800,000 metric tons (3,323,000.000 bushels). In wheat, again according to Izvestia, Russian production was nearly double that of the U. S. in 1933 and almost equal to the 1915 U. S. wheat bumper of bumpers...
...last year with over-optimistic farm statistics 35 comrades were shot. This year's reports show an increase of 5.4% over last, the State farms having fulfilled their program 104.8%, the collectives 99.4%, the individual peasants 75.5%. The State hopes for an exportable surplus of 5,000,000 metric tons...
This change from the long-established custom of measuring college races in yards and miles and field events in feet was caused by the recent action of the I.C.4A. and the A.A.U. In March, 1932, the I.C.4A. voted to run the 1933 Intercollegiates on the metric system if the A.A.U. agreed to adopt the change. Last December the A.A.U. voted favorably on the project, the final decision being left to the athletic boards of the different colleges...