Word: mets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle to decide the economic shape of Europe is building up. One of the open ing skirmishes was fought last week when eight leading representatives of OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation) met in Paris. The engagement was screened by a fog of long technical words and its result was inconclusive. When the meeting ended, however, the advantage lay with Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps. He had skillfully checked a drive by ECA and some continental nations to reduce currency exchange barriers between European nations...
Against that background the OEEC group met last week in Paris. Their assignment was to renew or to change the Intra-European Payments agreement, which runs out this month. Britain's objective was to make the new plan as much like the old as possible. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak and French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche were expected to carry the ball for the liberal Harriman position...
...spouse of one who was a passenger on the plane. Largo had taken a box of fish to the airline office, where it was weighed in and tagged. He insisted on taking the box to the airfield. Between the office and the airfield he was met by Salazar, who transferred the tags to a similar box containing dynamite and a time fuse crudely made from an old timing device used in permanent-wave machines. The fuse, originally set to go off in 15 minutes, had been adjusted by a watchmaker who changed the time to 45 minutes. They...
Fuchs put the 16-pound shot 56 feet, 11 1/2 inches last week in the New York Met meet. Michigan's world record-holder Chuck Fonville is the only athlete who has bettered that distance. Appel has vaulted 14 feet, Wade has run a 4:13 mile, and the freshman Hipple twins, who high jump in their bare feet, generally get up around 6 feet, 2 inches...
...steelmen met in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week for the American Iron & Steel Institute's annual convention, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, Harry Truman's good-will ambassador to U.S. business, brought them mixed tidings. For one thing, they were not alone in their doldrums; in April, Sawyer's economists had reported, the sales of all manufacturers slumped $1.2. billion from March to the lowest monthly total ($16.9 billion) this year. But Sawyer was optimistic : the gross national output, as he pointed out later in the week, was still running ahead of 1948, there...