Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catalogued by old, famed Sotheby's auction rooms in London as "The Property of a Gentleman, a well-known Collector," the Hearst hoard weighed 31,000 ounces or almost precisely one ton. Some of the pieces had been acquired as recently as six months ago. Most of them had been bought by high-bidding Hearst agents, once known as the most prominent silver buyers in London. Over a green baize table in Sotheby's quiet Bond Street rooms last week, red-faced Auctioneer Major Felix Walter Warre sold all 86 items to nodding, winking bidders...
...Edward Thomas Eyston raced his monstrous, 24-cylinder Rolls-Royce over Bonneville salt flats, Utah, at an unofficial speed of 309 m.p.h. (TIME, Nov. 8), it was expected that soon the 301 m.p.h. official world record would fall. Last week it did. Captain Eyston guided his 6-wheeled, 7-ton contraption over the same course to an official 311.42 m.p.h. Said he: "It was a hell of a run and I don't mean that profanely." During his second lap, on which he averaged 317 m.p.h. his goggles came loose and he had to adjust them while he drove...
...arises from cosmic ray collisions in the upper air. An important question remained: What is the X-particle's mass? It appeared to be heavier than an electron but lighter than a proton. But this is a wide range, about as wide as between a pound and a ton...
...Stockton, with saw-toothed docks and sidings, swift, economical loading machinery and smooth management, was ready for business. Behind was a rich agricultural hinterland, ahead was the whole world to ship to and buy things from. And most of it could be handled a dollar a ton cheaper than by using the next nearest port, established and powerful San Francisco. Though Stockton's tonnage increased each year they had scarcely passed the half million mark by 1935, and business was slow. Somewhat responsible were the railroads which by their delay in rate adjustment, encouraged the Central Valley...
...steel industry last week was operating at 36.4% of capacity. Steel scrap, which accounts for nearly one-half of new steel, sold for almost $22 a ton in April, was down last week to $13.41. These melancholy facts trouble everyone in the junk business.* In Chicago the junk business is especially troubled, for retail junk shop owners for the last two months have been having trouble with the men who collect and sell them their scrap. About 1,500 junkmen, members of the United Junk Peddlers' Association-a C. I. O. affiliate -struck against the retailers for union recognition...