Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ambulance driver! In other words, I rattle round pitch dark streets in a three-ton furniture pantechnicon. God help my poor bloody patients. I bet I cause more casualties than I succour...
Only one boat slid out of New York's harbor as the President signed his proclamation - the 5,029-ton freighter Black Gull, of the Black Diamond Lines, bound for Rotterdam and Antwerp via the English Channel. But within 48 hours the Maritime Commission had tentatively approved an application from the United States Lines to transfer registry of nine ships to the Republic of Panama. Under Panamanian registry they could go merrily on carrying cargoes to Europe's belligerents...
...Chilean ore-at Sparrows Point, Md. Bethlehem Steel takes ores in from Cruz Grande, Chile (4,265 miles away) at a freight cost of $2.50 to $3.00 per ton, plus Panama Canal tolls of $7.20; since no toll need be paid on Chilean ore laid down in Portland (5,739 miles from Cruz Grande), it should be cheaper there...
...group by itself) converting a $12,000,000 deficit to a $12,000,000 profit. Steel's third quarter report last week showed its Cinderella common stock back in the black to the tune of $10,420,445-47? a common share, and showed $5.16 operating profit per ton shipped; it is operating at close to 90%. Even more spectacular was the record of Bethlehem Steel, which makes money at a lower rate of operations than its big brother, which is now operating at full capacity, whose common earnings shot up from nothing in the 1938 quarter...
...trim, single-funneled, 5,809-ton German freighter, deep grey and black, slipped quietly out of Kiel, nosed through cold, thick fog toward the Norwegian coast, headed at top speed (eleven knots) into the teeth of the North Sea blockade. She was the commerce raider Wolf, commanded by stocky, hand some, canny Karl August Nerger. Cunningly concealed behind hinged steel side she carried a wicked assortment of 5.1 guns, torpedo tubes, machine guns, 45: mines. Her orders: to mine the chief British colonial ports...