Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Railroad operates some 1,600 miles of line in four States, connecting New Orleans, Shreveport, Baton Rouge and Monroe, La., Memphis, Tenn., Jackson, Meridian, Vicksburg, Greenville, Natchez, Greenwood and Clarksdale, Miss., and Helena, Ark. Property investment is roundly $100,000,000. In 1936 the road performed 1,085,000.000 ton miles of freight service and 60,000,000 miles of passenger service, gave employment to approximately 4,000 persons, contributed $1,625,000 in taxes in the territory served...
...Pennsylvania Coal industry whose United Mine Workers and mine operators let out a howl in unison. Both were alarmed because, in carrying out Secretary Hull's policy of building up foreign trade, the agreement was expected to exempt Soviet coal and coke from a special $2-a-ton tax, assessed under the Revenue Act of 1932. The coal industry's alarm diminished promptly when the Soviet Government saluted the agreement by announcing that coal exports to the U. S. next year will not exceed 400,000 tons, slightly less than Russia shipped...
...case reached the California Supreme Court. Last week it looked as though Mrs. Bishop's troubles were over. Newsstories from Southern California made it appear that Mrs. Josie Bishop owns an extremely rich deposit of radium-bearing ore-one of the richest, in proportion of radium to the ton, ever discovered...
...rich radium deposit is one which yields 90 to 120 milligrams (.00315 to .0042 oz.) nearly pure radium bromide salt per ton of concentrated ore (50 tons of crude ore). From ore bodies of such richness in northwestern Canada the refining plant is able to extract one gram of commercially pure radium from 550 tons of mined ore. A San Diego mining engineer and chemist named F. S. Kearney, now working in Mexico, assayed Mrs. Bishop's ore at 130 milligrams of radium per ton. This high figure, Mrs. Bishop said, was confirmed when she sent a sample...
...fact nothing has been "done for Wales." The Government do not claim to have brought about the pick-up in Welsh coal exports which has reduced the registered unemployed figure to 33,000, increased the employed to 32,-ooo. The price of coal still averages about $4.00 per ton, and the average South Wales employed miner still earns about $2.40 daily...