Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week toward the New York World's Fair (thence to New England) rolled a roadshow long promised to stamp collectors by Jim Farley: a three-ton truck fitted up as a philatelic museum, displaying 535 varieties, representing every U. S. stamp. Announced value was $1,000,000, although the displays are unused, unsalable, imperforate proofs from original plates. Visitors to the truck can buy a 10? history of U. S. philately, current and commemorative stamps. Hot off a tiny press, they get blue souvenir stickers of the White House portico where Philatelist Roosevelt last week dedicated...
...Odessa, Soviet Russia took delivery on the latest addition to its Black Sea fleet, the Italian-built, 2,895-ton destroyer Tashkent...
Last week another battleship slid down the ways of a British shipyard. One anchor broke after she left the ways, but the second held and the vast shell of the 35,000-ton battleship Prince of Wales floated easily in midstream of the River Mersey. Launchings have lately been commonplace ceremonies in the ceremonial-ridden British scene. Last twelvemonth has seen two battleships, one aircraft carrier, two cruisers, 16 destroyers, seven submarines launched...
...doors, a neatly streamlined hood and front end. Designed to sell cheaply, like Crosley radios and refrigerators, to run economically (like Mr. Crosley's Cincinnati Reds), the new four-passenger car has a two-seater companion, a convertible coupè which can also be used as a quarter-ton delivery...
...first quarter in 1938. Steelmaster Tom Girdler's Republic Steel, No. 3 in the industry, earned $532,899 against $3,062,564 lost in the same quarter last year. National Steel, No. 5, still led the bigger fellows, however, earning more on its ingot capacity (71? per ton) than any of them, twice as much as in the first quarter...