Word: deadweighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose of the remodeling is to give Radcliffe students library facilities equal to that of Harvard undergraduates in Lamont Library," Dean Kerby-Miller said. As the first step to duplicate Lamont's course books, library officials will cut a 20,000 book deadweight from the present 100,000 volume collection. This cut will permit purchasing new books and increasing the number of duplicates for courses. Books for advanced study have already been moved to the New England Deposit Library, where they are available on order, and others valuable for graduate study may be sent to Widener...
Since 1941, the U-boat fleet had sunk no less than 440 U.S. ships, of 2,740,000 gross tons; mines, surface ships, aircraft and miscellaneous enemy action boosted the toll to 538 ships (3,310,000 gross tons or almost 5,000,000 deadweight tons). U.S. merchant seamen killed or missing totaled 5,579. To the British Empire, the cost was far greater: 2,570 ships, of 11,380,000 gross tons; 30,000 mariners dead or missing. For all the Allies and the few neutrals, the monstrous total stood: 4,770 ships, 21,140,000 gross tons:-equal...
...from its $23,958,504 profit on its first 181 Liberty ships. Remaining profit per ship: $25,000. The Maritime Commission declared this the standard by which all yards in the original Liberty-ship program will be renegotiated. The Commission estimates the cost of Liberties at some $157 per deadweight tons v. $255 for the Hog Islanders of World War I. Builders' profits, if kept to the Kaiser level...
...business cycle, cannot some deficit financing be risked to bring about a business upturn at the bottom of the cycle? To such a hypothetical question, Mr. Flynn would probably answer: Yes, the Swedes know how to spend on the downbeat and how to tax and pay off deadweight debt on the upbeat. But the U.S., like pre-fascist Italy and pre-Hitler Germany, seems bent on spending all the time. Mr. Flynn seems to imply that we just haven't got the brains of the Swedes...
...Creation of a pool of at least 5,000,000 deadweight tons to be laid up, possibly in the Great Lakes, and held for future emergencies but not "at any time operated in competition with private shipping...