Word: metrics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sting came to light when Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev announced that the 1977 Soviet grain harvest would amount to 194 million metric tons-the lowest since 1975. That bland statistic caused tremors of shock through not only the U.S. Department of Agriculture but the Central Intelligence Agency as well. All summer long the Agriculture experts and the CIA operatives who try to keep track of conditions on Soviet farms had forecast a fat 215 million-ton harvest, indicating that Moscow would not need to buy much foreign grain this year. But the bulletin from Brezhnev meant precisely the opposite...
...newly launched vehicle for Heyerdahl's latest voyage is the Tigris, an 18-meter-long (59 ft.) craft constructed from 30 metric tons (33 tons) of reeds gathered from the swamps of southern Iraq; its design is based on drawings found on ancient Sumerian clay tablets. Iraqi workmen first tied the reeds together into two long, tapering rolls. Then the rolls were joined to form the craft's hull. Though on earlier voyages Heyerdahl and his crew drifted across oceans at the whim of winds and currents, the Tigris will be more versatile. It has been fitted with...
...companies would transfer the material to the Government on a voluntary basis and pay a storage fee. How many storage sites will be needed and where they will be located has not yet been decided. So far, the industry's inventory of spent fuel is 2,500 metric tons, and by 1985, when some 75 new nuclear generators will have come into production, the backldog will be nearly ten times that amount. Estimates put the inventory for the year 2000 at an awesome 190,000 metric tons...
...second only to last year's alltime high of 6.2 billion bu. A third basic crop, soybeans, will yield 1.8 billion bu. v. a previous record of 1.5 billion bu. in 1973. Beyond what it can consume and export, the U.S. will have on hand 84 million metric tons of those products at year's end. In parts of the growing belts, storage bins are so full that excess grain is being dumped in parking lots and even in the middle of streets...
...catch is that the rest of the world has enjoyed two good harvests in a row. Normally, the U.S. exports some 35% of its grain. Now, however, grain and soybean shipments abroad (an anticipated 89 million metric tons in 1977) are expected to drop by 10% to 15% next year. Says Don Howe, president of the National Association of Wheat Growers: "Even if there was a total crop failure in America, we could still feed the entire country and maintain our commitments abroad for at least a year...