Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dead-weight tonnage is the carrying capacity of a vessel in long tons (2,240 lb.). Gross tonnage is the entire internal cubic capacity of a vessel, with each 100 cubic feet calculated to represent one ton. While it is difficult to compare the two measurements, gross tonnage is usually computed as roughly one-third less than deadweight tonnage, e.g., Liberty ships have a dead weight of 10,800 tons, gross weight of 7,100 tons...
...cubic feet...
...commercial warehouse or University space should be used. With the announcement of the University's lack of space, should be used. Wih the announcement of the University's lack of space, the committee has reported warehouses rates for interested students. In small lots the rates are 1.25 cents per cubic foot per mouth, in wholesale floor space the rate is only 1 cent per cubic foot per month...
...thin glycerine. Results were much better. Then the researchers found that the propylene glycol itself was a potent germicide. One part of glycol in 2,000,000 parts of air would-within a few seconds-kill concentrations of air-suspended pneumococci, streptococci and other bacteria numbering millions to the cubic foot...
Prepared to go unwashed but not unwarmed, many a Yale man turned to his fireplace only to find that the college had set the student allotment at a quarter of a cord. The wood should consist of pieces 18 inches long, and the entire lot measure 27 cubic feet; at the latest report New Haven stores were finding their supplies of rulers badly depleted...