Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issuance of the marketing order proposed by the State Department of Agriculture. . . . The result has been that, notwithstanding this year's crop is the smallest in three years, the price offered growers is the lowest in 20 years. The price paid last year by canners was $44 per ton. Price offered this year so far is $5 a ton. . . . Cost of production is $23 a ton. The result will ruin the majority of growers...
...Agriculture A. A. Brock appointed a Canning Industry Board which was partially successful in pegging prices, but left a carryover of 5,000,000 cases. Last week the industry failed to accept Director Brock's plan for limiting the pack of this year's 250,000-ton crop. This meant that the whole crop would be dumped on the market, threatened growers with a $4,500,000 loss as prices cracked. Homer Cummings agreed to investigate...
...emergency landing, then drifted off out of sight of the Meigs. But at the end of the week, though army bombers and navy destroyers and submarines kept up the weary search, the subject in the minds of most airmen was closed. The Clipper was a 26-ton Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small balloons to drop behind her in hare-hounds fashion to show...
...experimental S. S. Carimare has been dawdling in the middle of the ocean collecting weather information; for the first time Air France Transatlantique (combination of Air France and Compagnie Generale Transatlantique) is on the point of sending planes across the North Atlantic. This month and next, the hulking, 40-ton, six-motored Latecoere Lt. de Vaisseau Paris will make half-a-dozen round trips...
...entirely different location. From the steel-man's point of view, this was ideal, for it put all steel mills, no matter what their location, on an equal competitive footing all over the U. S. But consumers soon howled. A Chicago buyer in 1920 paid the $40 a ton Pittsburgh price plus $7.60 a ton freight from Pittsburgh, then found that the steel was actually being delivered from a Chicago plant next door. In 1924 FTC got around to jumping on "Pittsburgh Plus." Thereupon the industry developed the basing-point system whereby prices were quoted at some 80 steel...