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...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...
Australian swimmer Murray Rose broke his own American and collegiate record for the metric mile as the 1941 NCAA swimming championships opened in Seattle yesterday. Rose, swimming for the University of California, was clocked at 17:31.8, over nine seconds under the mark he set two years...
Bill Chase of Yale, who set a meet record of 17:48.7 to take the winner's slot in last year's metric mile, was second this year at 17:33.0. Gary Heinrich, a University of Cincinnati sophomore, placed third in the same race with 17:44.4. In for fourth was Winston Pendleton of Michigan State with a time...
...Thomas had tied his previous record, the new mark would not have been recognised anyway; a recent international dictum requires record heights to be measured in meters as well as inches. Harvard had no metric tape on hand, and so Thomas was jumping for a U.S., B.U., meet, and cage record only...