Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happen here," a Canadian interviewer was told in London by Britain's No. 1 Jewish industrialist Lord Melchett. "Another slump like the last one-and I'm afraid we'd have civil war in Britain!" Melchett told of advising the Government to buy 300,000 tons of copper at Depression's dirt-cheap price of $150 per ton, remarked that the Government is now screaming for copper at $350 per ton, cannot find as much as it wants for rearmament...
...Agitated in the steel trade last week was an embargo on exports of scrap-iron and steel, which is now selling at about $23 per ton, more than 50% above the price a year ago and the highest quotation since 1923; and sending up the price of domestic steel production. In steelmaking, scrap is as important a source of raw material as iron ore. So heavy is the movement of scrap to U. S. seaports that many a railroad has had to refuse further shipments until their yards are cleared of present congestion...
...nearest thing to a trade "institute" individualistic U. S. rubbermen will tolerate. Had he been asked, Mr. Viles would have told the committee that U. S. rubber consumption was currently running 16% ahead of last year while rubber stocks on hand have dipped below the 200,000-ton mark for the first time since 1930. At the end of last year each of the Big Four U. S. rubber companies (Goodyear, Firestone, U. S., Goodrich) had what seemed to be adequate inventories of rubber at favorable prices. But the future is not altogether reassuring, although possibilities of a shortage...
Saving as much as 97% of the labor costs of previous methods, the continuous rolling process has reduced the price of automobile body steel from $83 per ton to $71 in the last ten years. Most other big steel companies have adopted the process, paying Armco a modest royalty...
...Atlanta, "Ajax," a quarter-ton stone lion marking an apartment driveway entrance, mysteriously disappeared, three nights later reappeared at its post with its nose daubed red, a sign hung around its neck: "Boy! What a party! And was I drunk...