Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey's jug-shaped pug, Antonio Domenico ("Two-Ton Tony") Galento, 29, was invited to take part in the Hobby Lobby program (NBC), which was to be chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt. Told that the only remuneration was fame, he waddled away grunting, "If Mrs. Roosevelt gets paid, I want to get paid...
...just past. For them he emphasized the fact that these marks had been made without recourse to "suped up" engines, synthetic fuels or "five-hour engines" (such as Nazis and Fascists use). Flying all one afternoon and night, the big four-motored Boeing "superfortress" (XB-15) carried a two-ton payload 3,107 miles averaging 166.32 m.p.h. No record existed for this weight and distance; the Corps just set it up to shoot at, expecting to break it as soon as the superfortress (150 ft. wingspread) is equipped with bigger engines. Two days prior, the same ship climbed...
...sunbright afternoon last week Imperial Airways' 24-ton, clean-bodied Caribou cleaved a spuming white wake through Southampton harbor, rose and winged northwest on the first flight of her long-planned transatlantic mail service. Three hours later she put in briefly at the Foynes, Eire marine base, rose again trailing a weighted line for a refueling maneuver never before attempted in commercial transport service. Above her silvery-sleek spine flew an ugly, dark-snouted bomber converted into an air-going tanker. At some 500 feet the tanker's ejector flung out a grapnel. It hooked around the Caribou...
This answer to the challenge of Pan American's 41-ton Clippers (which last week completed in 24 hours their thirtieth crossing of the Atlantic) had cost Imperial many a costly survey flight, costlier technical trials & errors. The chief problem had been to provide for profitable payloads. Since Imperial's Empire flying boats could not lift half the Clippers' payload from the water, they had resorted to getting as much of a load as possible in the air, then gassing up for the long ocean flight...
...born Hans J. Isbrandtsen of New York City (Isbrandtsen-Moller Co., shipping), founded Western Operating Corp. with the help of Norwegian-born Texas Corp. Board Chairman "Cap" Torkild Rieber, Danish-born General Motors President William S. Knudsen and others. For nearly $1,000,000 he bought the 12, 395-ton former U. S. Navy auxiliary ship Ulysses, converted it into one of the most modern whale refineries afloat and dispatched it to the world's richest whaling grounds-the bitter, bustling, controversial Antarctic...