Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beaming on the whole proceedings was the U. S., South America's Good Neighbor who wants to show Latin Americans that she is not only Good, but the Very Best. This week, to Rio de Janeiro, in seven 23-ton bombers, flew 56 Army fliers on a 6,000-mile, four-stop good-will flight to salute Senhor Vargas...
...long been due for it-jovial, 38-year-old Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California. About a decade ago Lawrence invented the cyclotron, most efficient and powerful of atom-smashing devices, which spirals atomic bullets up to tremendous speeds by repeated electrical pushes. With his 85-ton cyclotron Lawrence and his numerous co-workers have created scores of artificially radioactive substances, including common salt, and have even created a few atoms of gold. He now has a 225-ton cyclotron and is planning an even bigger machine, that will weigh 2,000 tons (TIME, Nov. 6). Dozens...
Chevrolet (first in 1938 sales of light trucks): 85 h.p. at prices from $572 (half-ton pickup) to $955.45 (ton and a half stake truck with cab over engine). Feature: for $106.60 extra a two-speed axle for heavy duty...
Diamond T: two new (month-old) snub-nosed "cab forward" models, 1½-ton chassis for $775, 2½-ton for $880. Diamond T's 1940 feature: a 100,000 mile or one-year guarantee against mechanical imperfection. Diamond T models range from a $574 1-ton chassis to a 10-ton chassis for $5,000 plus...
...just received $25,000,000 by his father's will. Instead of diversifying his investment as he was advised, he began to concentrate in railroad securities. By 1926 he had a beard like a buffalo, owned the world's largest square-rigged yacht (the 675-ton Aloha), was Board Chairman of the big Western Pacific, controlled 40,000 miles of railroad trackage-a full seventh of the U. S. total-most of it in the Northwest, stamping ground of the late great Railroad Builder James Jerome Hill, whom he had known and idolized. By 1931 he had welded...