Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the trustees indignantly announced that vandals had invaded the park, cut loose more than a ton of track-bearing sandstone with pneumatic drills, carted the precious material away. The police were without a clue. Mr. Pellissier hired a watchman. At week's end the vandals had not offered their booty to the most likely buyer-Ward's Natural Science Establishment of Rochester...
...Joslin met a still trickier game. Inspecting a claim near Porcupine, Canada, Joslin reported that it was salted, took no samples of the rock into which the gold had obviously been pounded. Another company took such tests despite the clumsy attempt at fraud, discovered the samples averaged $25 a ton, paid cash for the claim, thinking the would-be crook had pounded gold into a gold mine unwittingly. But it developed that the crook had foreseen that line of reasoning, done a crude job of salting as bait, then an expert job of salting the samples, escaped in the double...
Cruft boasts that with no outside aid its eight machanics have built a ten ton water-cooled magnet, a hydraulic press exerting a force of 70,000 atmospheres, a battery of 100,000 volts, hugh switch boards, five foot vacuum tubes and a unique short-wave radio station, WIZJ. A ninety-two ton magnet for unclear physics investigation is contemplated. The shops work all summer and have over 2000 parts in stock. Some eighty research men work with the Cruft and Coolidge machinery and mechanics, among whom are two expert glass-blowers...
Factory. Each ton of soybeans yields 30 gal. of oil and 1,600 lb. of meal. Industry takes the oil and the meal, uses one or both to make glue, paints, combs, candles, radios, buttons, axlegrease, paper size, explosives, linoleum, oilcloth, printer's ink, billiard balls, rubber substitutes, cigaret holders, Christmas tree ornaments...
Everybody who comes out for the team will be allowed to start instead of the usual procedure whereby ton men are elected for the opening gun. For this reason no time trials have been made, and just what the team will do is more or less a matter of conjecture...