Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desire for the complete abolition of submarines, and if it could be achieved would be prepared to scrap the submarines they might have built or were building at the time." Five days later the German Admiralty announced a naval building program for this year of two 26,000-ton battleships, two 10,000-ton cruisers, 28 submarines of which three have been launched already, and said plans were being drawn for an airplane carrier...
...last week C. & O. hung up another record when it awarded contracts for $11,819,000 worth of railway equipment, biggest single order this year. From American Car & Foundry, Pullman-Standard Manufacturing Co., General American Car Co. and Bethlehem Steel Co., C. & O. ordered 5,000 50-ton steel hopper coal cars, 75 steel underframe flat cars and 50 single deck stock cars-a total of 5,125 units, nearly four times as much as all the freight cars ordered by all the other railroads in the land to date this year...
Morgan and his son, Henry Sturgis Morgan, sat on the stand to watch Mrs. Henry Sturgis Morgan christen the new 10,000 ton cruiser Quincy. While the band brayed, airplanes zoomed, crowds cheered, flags waved, schoolchildren sang, a U. S. deputy marshal elbowed his way through the jam and up on the stand, to serve writs in a mysterious $500,000 action against Mr. Morgan...
...Pacific Cable Co. for 32 years. The cable colony comprises 23 men including the resident superintendent who also serves as naval custodian, a resident physician, five Chinese, seven Japanese. The Pan American men bring the total population to 57. Advance crews from the North Haven moved in 2,000 tons of material-160,000 separate items. On a broad clearing they erected seven buildings including a power plant with 9-ton Diesel-electric generators, kitchen & mess hall, refrigeration plant with six months' food supplies, airport manager's office, boathouse with two launches, gasoline & oil storage station, machinery storehouse...
...Federal Commission to allot coal production; to establish 21 regional marketing agreements to maintain minimum prices, wage and hour schedules for labor; to appropriate $300,000,000 to do these things and to buy up submarginal coal lands; to impose a tax of 3? to 9? a ton on coal...