Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what seemed minutes the 13,869-ton liner stayed down on her side, virtually at the point of capsizing, before she slowly righted herself and began a sickening roll...
Last week the 51,731-ton luxury liner Bremen, missing for six weeks, was discovered in the place where she had been most generally believed to be hiding-Murmansk. The pride of the German merchant marine* had been sitting in Russia's only ice-free Arctic port for a full month. The account of her hair-raising northward run from New York, through the British blockade to sanctuary, came from Elbert Post, ship's cook, only Dutchman in her crew. Repatriated, he gave the story of the Bremen's, last voyage to the Amsterdam newspaper, Het Volk...
...damage; other planes simply find and clear the way. Main requirements of bombers are speed, range, capacity. Germany's Dornier Do. 17 and Heinkel He. 111 combine these talents admirably. The slender Do. 17, equipped with two liquid-cooled, streamlined, inverted-V Daimler-Benz engines, can lug one ton of bombs 1,500 miles at nearly 300 miles an hour; and the Heinkel, produced at Germany's model factory at Oranienburg (where duplicate machinery is set up underground, where workers live like prep-school boys), can carry the same load almost as fast and a little farther...
...Steel companies, faced with a $5 a ton rise in costs as a result of the $10 rise in scrap prices,* went on strike against $26 scrap, refused to buy till they got reductions of 25? to $1 a ton. Hard-bargaining Bethlehem managed to buy 90,000 tons in Buffalo at $22 to $23-a three months supply...
...Under the leadership of President Robert Wolcott of Coatesville, Pa.'s small plate-making Lukens Steel, which has already upped prices $5 a ton, steelmen formed a committee of 1,000 scrap-buyers, resumed their 1937 agitation for stopping tonnage export of U. S. scrap (favored by American Iron and Steel Institute President Ernest Weir, who also favors the embargo on munitions exports). There is a genuine scrap squeeze, mostly because Japan, England and other foreign buyers have taken 16,700,100 tons of scrap out of the U. S. in the last decade...