Word: grosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dead-weight tonnage is the carrying capacity of a vessel in long tons (2,240 lb.). Gross tonnage is the entire internal cubic capacity of a vessel, with each 100 cubic feet calculated to represent one ton. While it is difficult to compare the two measurements, gross tonnage is usually computed as roughly one-third less than deadweight tonnage, e.g., Liberty ships have a dead weight of 10,800 tons, gross weight of 7,100 tons...
Knox knew it was time to reef. In a carefully worded statement issued by the Navy, he gulped his previous words, took a new tack: "There is no great difference in the Navy and the committee figures for 1942, the net loss in gross tons being in the neighborhood of something over a million tons...
Landlubbers were reassured again. Put that way, the loss did not sound nearly as bad as the 12,000,000 deadweight tons trumpeted by the Truman Committee. But old salts were troubled. Why was the net loss given in gross tons when the U.S. Maritime Commission computes new ship construction in deadweight tonnage?* Was the Navy totting up ship construction in deadweight tons, totting up losses in gross tons, thus netting a fictitious bookkeeping profit on every deal? Or was gross tonnage chosen because sinkings could be represented by a smaller figure? Knox was silent...
While Colonel Hudnutt confirmed opinions about gross ignorance among F.A. ranks and demonstrations, Lt. Colonel Edgerton Merrill performed the same duties among the Q.M. units, making notes in a little black book. Colonel Merrill is ranking Q.M. officer in the First Service Command...
Transportation. The railroads' war boom now may also be Ringling's boom: they cut their itinerary to 8.000 miles (v. a previous peak of 20,000), decided to play longer runs in big towns east of the Mississippi (thus raising the gross and cutting expenses) and to plug such money-heavy war communities as Detroit. All the "bloomers" (towns with speculative box-office possibilities) were scratched. Excess baggage went overboard: the whole show now fits into 70 cars, moves in three trains (v. go in four trains last year...