Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sacred relics are the standard "meter bars" of platinum-iridium that lie in an underground shrine at Sèvres, near Paris. Replacing a babel of medieval units, they originated in the spurt of innovation that followed the French Revolution. The newfangled meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance between the earth's equator and the North Pole, but difficulties of measurement made the exact length hard to determine. So the meter that was finally accepted (39.37 in. in length) was almost as arbitrary a unit as the ells, feet, rods and pieds...
This week one statistic told the whole impressive story: West Berlin food authorities handed out the two-millionth parcel to a needy East German. Thus, within a fortnight, more than 10% of the whole Soviet zone population have defied or evaded their government and risked arrest for a ten-pound package of lard, dried beans, flour and canned milk...
With his daily output at 700 cars, up 165 from last year's average, Nordhoff has set a new goal. By adding a third production line, he hopes to boost daily output to 800 cars by year's end, is aiming for Volkswagen's millionth postwar...
...Springfield, Mass, retired an old civil service employee who had spent the past 34 years there working on rifles. At a testimonial dinner, shy, Canadian-born John C. Garand, 65, inventor of the Army's basic M-1 (Garand) rifle, was given, as a farewell trophy, the millionth M-1 which was made during World War II (over 4,000,000 have been made for the Army). Said Gunsmith Garand, looking at his famous product: "I've never felt bad about designing the rifle even though its only real use is in war. If it were used...
...measuring wave lengths, one angstrom - 100-millionth of a centimeter. Visible light ranges between 3,900 A. (violet...