Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able was he in infecting other men with his passion that for Breasted and the University of Chicago John D. Rockefeller Jr. founded the Oriental Institute with an endowment of some $13,000,000 (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931). From that ornate building which houses one of the 40-ton stone bulls of Sargon II, the rosy, white-haired little man, too old to dig, directed his legions in the field, kept track of the dispositions of natives and their governments, religious prejudices, malarial sectors, progress of rival diggers. But he was not satisfied to move colored pins about...
...highways, the Michigan Highway Department lately worked out a trailer which, hauled behind a truck, sucks up metal by magnetic attraction, feeds it into a hopper. The sweeper costs 35? per mile to operate, covers 42 miles per day. By last week it had accumulated more than a half ton of tire-damaging litter, including a pair of scissors...
...bottles cost between 4? and 5? but make 20 trips at an average cost of about ^ a trip. The paper con- tainer costs from 1¼? to 1½?, makes only one trip. But it is much cheaper to deliver milk in paper than in glass. A 1½-ton truck (heat insulated and requiring no ice ) can deliver 2,000 quarts of milk weighing 4,000 lb. The same 2,000 quarts delivered in a non-insulated five-ton truck would include 4,000 lb. of milk, 4.000 lb. of glass, 2,500 lb. of wooden cases...
Biggest was a 56-ft., 26-ton yacht priced at $36,000. Smallest was a child's six-foot playboat. Fastest was a Century hydroplane guaranteed to go 65 m. p. h. To see these and one hundred other craft, worth $2,000,000 and drydocked temporarily in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, the biggest crowd (20,000) in its history attended the premiere of the annual Motor Boat Show last week...
...year's show was that of the Wheeler Shipyard's 56-ft. Playmate. Lost in the fog for four hours during its water passage from the Wheeler Yards in Brooklyn to its docks in Manhattan, the Playmate was finally hoisted out of the water onto a 30-ton truck. The job took 40 minutes, cost $1,200. Last year, after measuring an elevated railway crossing and deciding it was just big enough for one of its boats to get under, Wheeler Co. was disappointed to find that a two-inch snow fall had made it impassable. Last week...