Word: deadweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shipbuilding orders ever. Beginning next June, his shipyard division in Kure, Japan will start building five huge, 103,000-dead-weight-ton tankers, dwarfing Ludwig's 85,000-d.w.t. Universe Leader, world's biggest tanker, and boosting Ludwig's fleet to more than 3,000,000 deadweight tons by 1960. When the ships are launched, they will put him ahead of Stavros Niarchos as the world's No. 1 independent shipowner...
...race was lost, but Rod Carnegie's Revolution had not really failed. It had jolted the staid foundation of British rowing, which has won few honors since World War II. Carrying one crewman as almost deadweight cargo, Oxford's American-style stroke had done so well it could no longer be ignored...
Even without this addition, there is no doubt that Niarchos has more ships afloat and abuilding than any private shipowner in the world. When the 28 new ships under construction are completed, Niarchos' fleet will total 1,976,779 deadweight tons,* five times the size of the French navy...
...Deadweight tonnage, the standard U.S. yardstick for merchant ships, is the number of long tons (2,240 Ibs.) a ship can carry when fully loaded. Other ways of sizing up a ship: displacement tonnage, internationally used to 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...
...Time to Worry? While anticipating a Republican victory this year, Lubell thinks it likely that neither party will win a truly decisive majority before 1960 or possibly 1964, because the U.S. electorate is at "almost deadweight evenness." A sizable part of it has "developed what might be described as a strong case of political insomnia, tossing from one party bed to another." What the people want is to stay squarely in the middle, and, perhaps unconsciously, they use each party to check the other...