Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remove invisible internal stresses from the steel, the mammoth tank was rolled into a vast annealing furnace, where oil burners made it red hot. Workmen inched the completed 230-ton tank out of the Kellogg shop and onto two of the ten longest (55-ft.) flatcars in the world. Railroad curves, bridges and tunnels between Jersey City and Whiting did not permit freightage of Stanolind's tank. So the Lehigh Valley R.R. hauled it two miles to the west bank of the Hudson. All traffic on the railroad had to stop while this went...
...biggest (250-ton) floating derrick ballasted by 300-ton of water lifted the tank from the flatcars to the river, where she floated half submerged. Carpenters lagged her with 14-in. timbers to protect her from bumps. A tug lashed on to a 400-ft. hawser, and at 6-m.p.h. started a three-week tow up the Hudson to Troy (142-mi.), through New York's Barge Canal to Oswego on Lake Ontario (184-mi.), and 1,045 more miles through Lake Ontario, the Welland Canal, Lake Erie, St. Clair River, Lake Huron, the Straits of Mackinac, then...
...commodity boom, the root of current business troubles. Cash wheat was down from $1.60 to $1.23 per bu.; corn from $1.58 to $1.21 per bu. ; cotton from 15¼? to 8½? per lb.; rubber from 27? to 17¼ per lb.; steel scrap from $23.50 to $18 per ton; cocoa from 13? to 7? per lb.; turpentine from...
Last week as the 5,299-ton British freighter Silverash wallowed down the Atlantic Coast to New York harbor, gleeful Director Mann exhibited to reporters who had been sent to meet him at Halifax one of the biggest arkfuls of animal life ever to reach U. S. shores. From the time they boarded the Silverash at Singapore he and five assistants had been busy, forking hay for their ruminants, feeding fresh eggs to snakes, dangling frozen fish before crocodiles who had to be deluded into thinking they were catching them. By a triumph of nursing and nourishing they brought back...
Peanuts. Of the problems facing farmers who produce minor crops, a good example was provided by peanuts. Last year's peanut crop totaled some 630,000 tons (normal 450,000), worth $44,000,000. This year's is about the same. Peanut farmers were not included in the original AAA, but after a price shambles brought on by a 560,000-ton crop in 1934, they were taken into the fold. Last week, in order to keep this year's crop from drugging the market, AAA officials in Washington held a conference with 100 representatives of growers...