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Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage. This is the actual weight of a ship at a given time, empty or otherwise. The displacement tonnage of a ship increases according to the weight of fuel, passengers, mail or freight with which it is burdened...
...into the fields. In Shansi, 400,000 more were (in Peking's phrase) "retrenched" from dam construction and industry to the soil. Now, three years too late, the Communist Party announced that it was putting "industry at the service of agriculture." A Harbin plant switched from making freight cars to repairing tractors; in Kansu...
...large parallel tunnels, each containing a single railway track, plus a small service tunnel. Stretching from Folkestone to Calais, the tunnels would run underwater for 23 miles. Autos and trucks would drive onto flatcars, be whisked through the tunnels at 60 m.p.h. by electric locomotives. Passenger and freight trains would be routed directly through the tunnels, cutting the train time from London to Paris from eight to less than five hours...
...Great Debate. The relative merits of tunnel and bridge have plunged their proponents into a no-holds-barred debate. Either is technically feasible. Each would cut the cost of a Channel crossing from $32 for a car with three passengers to $22.50, reduce freight charges by 50%. Both would take about five years to build. The tunnel's main advantage is that at an estimated $364 million, it would cost only half as much as the bridge. Moch contends that a tunnel would induce claustrophobia and be a trap in case of an accident. But pro-tunnel people contend...
...Running against the best distance and weight-carrying horses in the nation, Kelso has won the Brooklyn. Suburban and Metropolitan Handicaps, the Whitney Stakes, the Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Woodward Stakes-under imposts as high as 136 lbs. (Man o' War's top freight: 138 lbs.), over distances as long as two miles, by margins as wide as eight lengths. Says Veteran Thoroughbred Trainer Howard Hoffman: "I'd have to call Kelso a freak-a wonderful freak. He doesn't look like much, but he runs hard, carries weight and takes on all comers...