Word: six-ton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...six-ton elephant heaves up a trunk as thick as a small tree, curls it back as delicately as a debutante's pinky, and with exquisite precision wipes a bit of foreign matter...
Colonel Scott, who told in his wartime bestseller, God Is My Co-Pilot, how he bagged Japanese planes now has spun an ingratiating yarn about how he bagged African big game. After dispatching the usual lion, leopard and elephant, Scott tracked Samburu, an almost legendary six-ton, ancient bull elephant that glides on noiseless, 28-inch footpads. Once, floundering out of a river, Hunter Scott suddenly came upon the huge-tusked giant and shouldered his rifle, only to find the sights waterclogged. By sliding back into the river, he sought to escape the shrieking charge. The monster, possibly distracted...
...keep pace with Manhattan's rising real-estate values. Last week Rockefeller Center's Chairman Laurance Rockefeller pronounced a death sentence on the relatively young building. When NBC's lease expires next May, workmen will tear down the Center's vermilion doors, mahogany walls, its six-ton, 400-bulb chandelier, once the world's biggest. On the theater's site will rise a new $11 million, 19-story office building that will connect with the U.S. Rubber Co. building and bear the same name...
Seafood & Vegetables. He hired 35 ex-Army flyers as pilots, promising them also a share of profits; showed oil companies how rigs could be broken down and air-freighted in six-ton (C46 capacity) lots. The oil companies are ready to sign contracts when Slick gives the word. He lined up cargoes of vegetables, seafood, etc. to be flown north, merchandise to be flown back to Texas stores...
...special restorative food for humans who are so starved that they cannot digest ordinary fare. The food, of powdered amino acids, is made from milk, meat, eggs, beans and fish, and is called protein hydrolysate. It may be taken in solution either by mouth or by vein. A six-ton shipment, made in the U.S., was on the way to The Netherlands last week...