Word: four-ton
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There have been few heroes in the distressing developments since the accident. The primary issue throughout has been why the left engine on the three-engine jetliner literally took off on its own as the 120-ton airplane was rising from the runway at O'Hare. The four-ton engine, exerting a thrust of 40,000 Ibs., had ripped away with the pylon that attached it to the wing. Climbing, the engine apparently tore into the wing, severing at least two of the three hydraulic pressure lines embedded near the forward edge. The loss of the engine, its hydraulic...
...Susa in western Iran, they suddenly struck a large stone object. As they excitedly removed more earth, fingers, then a hand and finally most of a human figure emerged. Even though the head and shoulders were missing, hieroglyphics on the carved belt of the more than seven-foot-high, four-ton statue indicated that it was a figure of Darius the Great, one of the most powerful rulers of the ancient world...
Late Sunday night and into the early morning hours yesterday thousands of curiosity-seekers descended on Mannhill Beach, near Scituate, to view the carcass of a reported 30-foot, four-ton sea monster that had been washed ashore by Saturday evening's 11-foot mammoth high tide...
...Bear is the Natty Bumppo of the bow to 7,500,000 U.S. archers. In his home town of Grayling, Mich., the chief industry is the Bear Archery Co. The main tourist attraction is the new $350,000 Fred Bear Museum. Though Bear has stopped a four-ton bull elephant with a single arrow, shot polar bear in the Arctic and Bengal tiger in the jungles of India, he claims that "the wariest, craftiest and hardest game of all to hunt is the white-tailed deer of North America...
...Sail was forged in France in 35 pieces. Its 27-ton bulk took a ton and a half of nuts and bolts to hold it together and a four-ton concrete foundation. At present, it is the largest Calder in the Western Hemisphere. But not for long. The silver-haired tinker is already at work on a 65-ft.-high by 94-ft-wide stabile in unpainted stainless steel, to be set on an island in the St. Lawrence in time for the 1967 Montreal World's Fair. Its name...