Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afloat in freighters on the high seas last week were 10,254 tons of tin bound for U. S. ports to be combined or converted into can coatings, automobile bearings, tooth fillings, gun metal, tin foil. At the same time, in Brussels, the discreet and powerful gentlemen whose companies mined this tin were agreeing to extend for five years the cartel by which world tin production is determined. Set for the first quarter of 1937 were production quotas at what the International Tin Committee calls "standard 100%," practically identical with 1929 production (192,000 tons). Siam, which nearly broke...
United Air Lines is proud of many things-that it is the oldest U. S. airline; that it flies more passenger plane-miles and traffic ton-miles than any other airline; that it makes money. Not the least of United's prides has been its record on its most popular run-the 363 miles between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Since acquiring twin-motored transports seven years ago. United has flown as many as 30 planes a day over this mountainous, two-hour route with a reliability comparable to the Pennsylvania Railroad's service between New York...
...disposed of nine major vessels-Mduretania, Majestic, Olympic, Homeric, Doric, Oceanic, Calgaric, Adriatic, Albertic. It has built the Queen Mary and started slightly larger Hull 552. Still left is a gap in its fleet which Cunard last week announced will be filled with eight 30,000-to-40,000-ton motorships of an improved Georgic type, each to be given names ending in the traditional Cunard ia. The White Star ic suffix is being abandoned...
...Manhattan last week three Pennsylvania truck drivers were fined $25 each for bringing bootleg coal into the city. There legitimate dealers, whom 'leggers undersell by $2 per ton, have prodded police into action, nearly stopped the illegal traffic which in New York City alone amounted to 400,000 tons per year. But at its source the flow of stolen coal continues unabated. Law officers have declined to arrest the 'leggers, grand juries to indict them, petit juries to convict them. And Governor Earle, like Governor Pinchot before him, has refused every demand by coal operators for armed intervention...
Ever since that September day in 1608 when Hendrik Hudson in his 80-ton Half Moon sailed 143 miles up from the sea to its site, Albany has had a maritime history. In 1686, when it received the charter which today makes it the oldest incorporated city in the U. S., the little Dutch fur trading post already was a prominent port...