Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...archeology, joined the University of Chicago staff in 1927. Thin, slope-shouldered and bearded, he resembled the popular idea of a scientist, was noted for boundless energy and painstaking preciseness in his work. He it was who discovered and succeeded in bringing to Chicago one of the magnificent, 40-ton stone bulls of King Sargon...
...would be safe in a phosgene concentration of one part per thousand, of which a single breath would probably kill an unprotected man. Hence in practice such a mask is a very nearly complete protection. It is the same with shelters. ... A single four-ton bomb . . . aimed exactly right . . . would no doubt destroy a shelter which was safe against bombs weighing one ton. Nevertheless, I shall call a shelter bombproof if it will stand up to a one-ton bomb. ... A one-ton [gas] bomb will poison 120 million cubic feet of air, for example a layer [of air] twelve...
...with the old prices, it must now, however, produce at about 55 or 60% to stay out of the red. In an attempt to reach the break-even mark. U. S. Steel Corp. last week suddenly slashed steel rail prices for 1938's fourth quarter $2.50 per ton, bringing them into line with other steel prices, which it left unchanged. Other companies quickly followed suit. Said Iron Age: "While the reductions tend to restrict the possibilities for profit in steel making, this is more theoretical than actual, as there has been virtually no business in these lines for some...
...Queen Elizabeth (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC-Blue), 85,000-ton Cunarder launched at Clydebank, Scotland. Speaker: Queen Elizabeth...
...defending champion had his inning first. Three weeks ago he drove his seven-ton, eight-wheeled Thunderbolt over the measured mile of glistening salt at an average speed of 345 m.p.h., 34 m.p.h. faster than man had ever traveled on earth. Last week, after a fortnight of unfavorable weather, Challenger Cobb had his inning. Sitting in the nose of his tear-shaped, front-and-rear-engined Railton† (only half the weight of Thunderbolt}, with his head accommodated in an aluminum cupola with a speak-easy window, Driver Cobb streaked over the measured mile in a little over...