Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measure naval vessels, is figured by computing the weight of sea water (35 cu. ft. weighs one long ton) a ship displaces when loaded: gross registered tonnage, usually used to measure passenger liners, is a nautical monstrosity, arrived at by computing the total enclosed space on the ship in cubic feet and dividing by 100 to get the tonnage. One deadweight ton equals approximately 1.5 gross tons for most ships...
...Zeckendorf does not live in burgeoning Nassau County. Besides an eight-room Manhattan apartment, he has a 7O-acre waterfront estate in Greenwich, Conn., where he has moved more than a million cubic yards of earth to change the shoreline, installed a null swimming pool, and dredged out a ^2-acre fresh-water lake for bass. Last week he bought a twelve-room, $27,000 Greenwich house, Y$ mile from his estate, just to house his servants...
...Johns Hopkins Hospital study revealed that soap is not the pure, clean substance people think it is. Tests of the hospital's own soap showed it contained 3,500,000 germ organisms per cubic centimeter. Contaminating bacteria from staff members' clothing found their way into solutions used for rinsing surgical gloves and instruments. Henceforth, the hospital will sterilize soap containers by steam under pressure and add chemical germicides to rinsing solutions...
Already favored by the President's 27 1/2 percent tax abatement to compensate for depletion and dry holes, these oil companies, unless regulated, can "gouge" the consumer with exhorbitant prices. An increase of as little as two to five cents per million cubic feet could cost the consumer as much as $18 billion in the next twenty years. If the consumer tires of Esso gasoline or Chesterfield cigarettes, he can change his purchases, but the 60,000,000 users of gas for refrigerators, ranges, and heating plants must pay whatever price the local gas company charges. In addition, industrial production...
...century. "Our temperature is lower than at the North Pole," one Moscow taxi driver told his fare proudly and accurately (Moscow thermometers registered -36.4° F., as opposed to the recordings of -7.6° at the pole). On Helgoland, in the North Sea, chilled islanders gathered together 8,000 cubic meters of firewood to build a gigantic bonfire...