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