Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred-ton cyclotron, one of the most powerful atom-smashers in the world, will be on view. In addition the visitor may see the new indoor wind-tunnel for testing airplane design; the new electron bombardment furnace, producing temperatures half as hot as the sun; the 100,000 - volt storage battery, most powerful in the world; the high-frequency radio equipment making automatic records of condition in the ionosphere; experiments which have led to a new theory of mountain formation; and many other laboratory features...
Soon after death came to Pius XI last week, the great eleven-ton Campanone, largest of St. Peter's bells, was set to its deep, sad tolling. This week, as a triple coffin was lowered to the crypt of St. Peter's, not only the Campanone and the bells of Rome's mourning churches but a tolling from hundreds of cathedrals, from thousands of parish churches the world over, sounded the grief of the widowed Church and millions of her children over the loss of the kindly little man whom, they devoutly and humbly believed, the workings...
...will be first used next month when the King goes to Newcastle for the launching of the new 35,000-ton battleship King George V. Safety feature of the new Daimler: the glass is bulletproof...
...rambling Boeing Aircraft plant on the Duwamish River near Seattle workmen last week were putting the finishing touches on five of the world's most remarkable airplanes, the Boeing 314 flying boats for transoceanic service (another is already completed). Forty-two-ton monsters each as high as a two-story house and as powerful as 6,000 horses, the four-motored ships are the largest ever built for commercial service. Last week in Manhattan, Pan American Airways President Juan T. Trippe announced that his company's purchase of these six Boeings had been financed like ordinary railroad cars...
...biggest producer is the Frood Mine near Sudbury, Ont., discovered by Prospector Thomas Frood, who sold his claim for $30,000. Deep beneath tall smelter chimneys and black slag mounds, its shafts bite 3,425 feet into the earth; from its honeycomb of stopes come 12,000 tons of nut-brown ore every working day. A ton of Frood ore contains 95 pounds of copper, 47 pounds of nickel, and the farther the shafts pierce toward the earth's core the richer the ore becomes...