Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after a year of extravagant ballyhoo on the part of his manager, shrewd Oldtimer Joe Jacobs, Two-Ton Tony (weight 233!) was given his chance against the best prizefighter in the world, Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis. Not in years had a world's championship heavyweight match been given such a jocular press. Boxing experts noted that 29-year-old Galento had been around for eleven years, had been defeated 22 times, was a slow-moving human tub whose boxing technique consisted of roughhouse butting, wrestling, sticking thumbs in opponents' eyes. They agreed that the little...
...Steel prices wobbled as all companies cut sheet prices $8 per ton to the low reached in the brief price war two months ago. Steel estimated that the price cuts would cost the industry somewhere between $13,200,000 and $50,000,000, reported that one typical producer (on 50% operation) was losing $12.50 on every ton of sheets he turned out to sell...
This week, as the press preview round trip completed its westward flight and a scheduled flight over the northern route was headed east, Pan American's 41-ton Dixie Clipper (Captain Arthur E. La Porte, commanding) was readied at its Port Washington, L. I. base to take off for Lisbon and Marseille via the Azores, on its first regular passenger flight (44 hours).* It was just 20 years to the month since Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic hop. In the seat once reserved for well-loved Will Rogers...
...keep on good terms with good neighbors in Latin America, and turn bad ones into good ones, the U. S. lately has lavished foofaraw and funds on Brazil, Haiti, Nicaragua. Last week in Washing ton, Paraguay's President-elect José Félix Estigarribia got his share: a $500,000 credit to bolster the wavering Paraguayan peso, plus further loans to finance purchases of U. S. materials, machinery, services for Paraguayan roads and industry...
...ton battleships awarded went to the Brooklyn and Philadelphia Navy Yards, giving navy yard ways five out of eight U. S. battlewagons now on order...