Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warships on patrol were to remain at least ten miles offshore, though there was no stipulation to prevent patrol ships of any country from entering any Spanish harbor when off duty. At anchor last week in Iviza harbor lay the pride of the German Navy, the 10,000-ton "pocket battleship" Deutschland...
...single-decked suspension with two piers, the bridge has a total length of 9,266 ft. The main span is 4,200 ft. long, 700 ft. more than George Washing ton Bridge's centre span. The two grace ful towers are 746 ft. high, the clearance of the six-lane roadway and two passenger walks over the water, 220 ft. More intriguing than all these statistics are the allowances for the great stresses which the bridge may meet. In case a hurricane sweeps in from the sea, it can swing 21 ft. out of line without harm. When...
...Jumbo Mine. For $10,000-$500 down-the Jumbo was sold a few months later to one George Austin, a grizzled oldster who ran the hotel and general store in a nearby flag stop called Jungo on the Western Pacific". Jumbo ore assayed as high as $1,495 per ton. Other members of the Austin family staked adjoining claims, signed an agreement among themselves not to sell out except as a group for 50 years. With primitive equipment the Austins were quietly digging out $500 per day when Herbert Hoover suddenly put them on the national mining map last summer...
...should forget. Between Portsmouth on the Hampshire shore and the green Isle of Wight lie the most famed yachting waters in the world. Here in a carefully marked out area of 24 sq. mi. were assembled 277 ships ranging from the world's greatest warship, the 42,000-ton battle cruiser Hood, to a proud delegation of British herring trawlers. Wardroom statisticians quickly figured that the 143 British warships in line alone displaced 670,000 tons, cost British taxpayers...
...your description of the movement of iron ore from mine to vessel. Obviously, no steam shovel or mine skip could load ore into a box car, as is suggested by your statement: ". . . box cars crawl out of the ore pits and stock piles toward the lake ports. . . ." Actually, 75-ton hopper cars are used for this purpose. You also state: "There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers. . . ." Unless startling innovations have been installed since I left the Great Lakes region two years ago, this is also inaccurate. The hopper cars...