Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price of newsprint for one dizzy moment in 1921 was $130 a ton. About a third of the cost of publishing a newspaper is the cost of newsprint and publishers were pleased when it dwindled...
...ton in 1933. In 1936 it went up to $41. Last year it stood at $42.50. Last week, on the last day of 1937, the Boston Evening American and the Washington Evening Star announced that they were going to raise their prices from 2? to 3? and eight other U. S. newspapers-from the Atlanta Georgian to the Omaha World-Herald-raised their weekly subscription rates 5?. For by the end of 1938 all newsprint will be costing $50 a ton. That will raise the year's operating costs of U. S. newspapers about...
...servicing "mother ship" 1,075 miles due south to Kingman Reef, first stop on the new route. Second stop was established at Pago Pago, Samoa, 1,538 miles farther south, where the clippers are prepared for the 1,798-mile jump into Auckland. Last week, flying his 19-ton. Sikorsky Samoan Clipper a steady 135 m.p.h., P. A. A.'s taciturn, 43-year-old veteran Captain Edwin C. Musick uneventfully traversed this route. This week he will begin scheduled fortnightly service (mail & express only) between New Zealand and Hawaii just in time to save the franchise. Airmail time between...
...rebate practices almost universally favored railroads and industry at the expense of the home consumer. B. B. C. asked producer boards (one in each district) to suggest their own minimum price schedules. Then, B. C. C. arbitrarily raised the minimum suggested by the producing boards 5? to 20? per ton for coal sold to industry, lowered their recommendations 5? to 15? per ton for coal sold to home owners...
...enforce its minimum, B. C. C. signs up producers to a code whereby each agrees to pay 1? per ton excise tax. Any producer who refuses to sign the code must pay a prohibitive tax of 19½% on his gross sales. So far 6,108 of the 6,315 U. S. bituminous mines have signed up, for coal producers, desperate after their many lean years, are nearly unanimous in favor of price fixing...