Word: mi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshall" has become part of the language. It means easy installments. Vedad Baykurt, a young businessman, says that when the peasant comes into a farm equipment store these days, his first question is, "Bu Marshall mi? [Is this Marshall?]," meaning, can I buy this on 20% down and 20% each year for five years, borrowing the down payment from the Agricultural Bank...
...hardening steel, had some big news about the rare-earth metals. A deposit discovered a year ago by the company near the Nevada-California line, said President Marx Hirsch, "is a major metal discovery." He estimated that there are 14 of the 15 rare metals in the ⅓ sq. mi. deposit...
...American Geographical Society, JIRP was led by Glaciologist Maynard Malcolm Miller (now 30), who decided that the Juneau Ice Field was an ideal subject for a long-range study of glaciers. It is comparatively accessible, only twelve miles from Juneau. Out of the huge field (700 sq. mi.) flow at least eleven glaciers, ten of which are slowly receding. The eleventh, which particularly intrigued the scientists, is the great Taku glacier, which has advanced more than 3½ miles in the last 50 years...
...search for the Affray took 59 days, covered a 1,000-sq. mi. Channel area where sonic gear marked the position of more than 90 different wrecks. Each time, the camera was lowered away. Sitting comfortably in the captain's cabin, the Navy diver needed only a glance at the TV screen to see that most of the wrecks were old fishing boats or coal barges...
...last December. But that still does not close China's door to the West. The trade has spread across the wide Pearl River mouth to the ancient, gaudy Portuguese colony of Macao (pop. 400,000). Standing on a peninsula and two tiny islands, Macao (total area: 6 sq. mi.) is a place addicted to gold smuggling, with customs officers who look the other way and businessmen who will deal with anybody. It was at Macao, four centuries ago, that white men got their first firm foothold on the mainland of Asia. Last week Macao's air-conditioned opium...