Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will enable ocean-going vessels, once channels have been deepened, to go 50 miles farther up the Columbia to The Dalles, and when eight or nine more dams are built (if ever), will open some 600 miles of the Columbia River to navigation. At present one boat with 600-ton capacity is being built and half a dozen 300-ton barges are planned to make use of the 50 miles of new watercourse...
With his pension doubled and a grant of an annual ton of wine, Chaucer ended his life in comfort. Ten months before his death he leased, in a sanguine mood, for fifty-three years a house in the garden of St. Mary's Chapel at Westminster. Surrounded by those distinguished men who loved both the poet and man, Chaucer slipped peacefully into eternity at the turn of the century, a round-numbered date that no English student has difficulty in remembering...
...Bermuda, up from the new airport on coral-girt DarreH's Island rose the four-motored, 18-ton flying boat Cavalier for its first test flight since arriving in sections from Great Britain two months ago. For 26 minutes the big craft drummed over the harbor at 185 m.p.h. with only its crew aboard. In a few weeks, Imperial Airways will start it buzzing back & forth to the U. S. in a series of tests preparatory to passenger service this summer...
...account for 99% of all sulphur mined in the U. S.. and nearly all of it is produced by two companies, Texas Gulf Sulphur and President Williams' Freeport. Both companies are making money in spite of the fact that Louisiana upped the sulphur tax from 27? per ton to 60? in 1934, upped it again last summer to $2. In Texas the tax went from 55? per ton to 75? in 1931, then to $1.03 last autumn...
...hearings last week Representative Graves got a Texas Gulf man to admit that sulphur could be mined for $8 per ton, whereas the price for years has been between $16 and $18 per ton. The sulphur companies argue that high taxes put them at a disadvantage in competition with foreign producers. Said a Texas Gulf man in Austin last week: "We have lost half our world trade in recent years." How much of this loss was directly traceable to a rigid price structure of their own making the U. S. sulphur producers have never volunteered...