Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nowadays the Jacob laboratories sell these whitish-brown lumps for 50? a quart ready for planting. The Jacob plant gets most of its manure which must be from "horses which are working hard and fed with grain and mixed feeds only," from Philadelphia and Baltimore, pays about $6.50 per ton, uses 20,000 tons a year. Buying the manure is a serious problem, for the supply is decreasing and dealers are notorious for mixing in straw, water and "stale" or mule manure...
...bottom. Then a "casing" of loam is put on top and in three weeks more the first white pinheads pop out. Each bed bears well for two or three months. Then the tired manure is stripped off, sold to golf courses as a top dressing for $1.50 a ton. The mushrooms themselves, fat, firm and thick as barnacles on a ship, are tended by gloved workmen who wear miners' head lamps to see in the dark...
...steel vessels." Later Florida's Supreme Court ruled that tin can manufacturers were exempt because a tin can is a steel vessel tincoated. Last week County Attorney J. W. Cone of Tampa ruled the Tampa Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. not exempt from taxation because their RFC-financed, 10,000-ton drydock is not exclusively or chiefly used for the manufacture of "steel vessels...
Last fortnight all kinds of Chicago artists, from spick-and-span dandies in automobiles to tatterdemalions trudging along with their paintings under their arms, began to arrive at the pier at the foot of Grand Avenue. A one-and-one-half-ton truck carted the pictures into the gallery and husky young Negroes hung them up. They needed more than two miles of wire, 5,000 nails. At the press preview a Chevrolet sedan traveling from one end of the line to the other was at the disposal of lazy or legweary newshawrks...
This year's German wheat and rye harvest, damaged by a cold winter and a late, dry spring, will fall about 15% below last year's, which was under average. Minister-President Göring has contracted for about 1,500,000 tons of foreign grain, while June figures show that food imports increased 16%, all of which has to be paid for out of Reichsbanker Schacht's laboriously collected foreign exchange reserves. Aim of the grain requisition is to save for food two million tons of rye and a half-million tons of wheat previously...