Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago, Pan American-Grace Airways had its first ,big South American freight order, a 55-ton shipment. Fortnight ago, the same line signed the largest air express contract on record and last week reported the successful completion of the first dozen bites into the 1,000,000 Ib. of equipment that it has agreed to fly over the Andes into northern Bolivia to reopen a gold mine abandoned two centuries...
...these top hatches in the airplane are necessary, with tracks along which platforms are rolled to distribute the load evenly in the fuselage. To the job P. A.G. assigned one plane, an old, all-metal, tri-motor Ford (the San Fernando), calculated it would take 500 trips carrying a ton at a time, and expect to have the last load laid down in Tipuani Valley within 100 days. The saving in time over burros and porters is estimated at seven years, eight months; each trip taking 28 minutes against the mule's ten days...
...increase in the prices of materials and supplies and fuel which the railroads use. The rest is due to restoration in 1935 of the 10% wage deduction originally made in 1932 and to recent wage agreements with the operating and non-operating unions. . . . The average revenue per ton-mile and per passenger-mile has steadily declined since 1921, until today railroads haul a ton of freight one mile for an average of less than a cent and carry a passenger a mile for less than two cents...
Typical of France's oversea air condition is the 40-ton French sesquiplane, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, built in 1934 and now an old-fashioned monster. She has six 12-cylinder, 890 h.p., water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engines, has 161-ft. wing spread-wider than any U. S. air-plane-but she cruises at only 142 m.p.h. Two years ago, she was anchored in Pensacola Bay while her crew was ashore, capsized during a squall, was salvaged with difficulty, flown home in chagrin...
...they were told the reason and 78 of 90 passengers of the President Jackson were politely asked to pack up and debark. Only the first twelve who had booked passages would be allowed to sail. The indignant "left behinds" booked on other lines, and at evening the 14,000-ton President Jackson sailed from a deserted dock, demoted, in almost the twinkling of an eye by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, from a liner to a freighter...