Word: tonner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shipping. The U.S. Maritime Commission gave the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. the go-ahead to build the biggest liner ever constructed in a U.S. shipyard, a 48,000-tonner to cost $70,373,000 (TIME, Aug. 2). The Government will put up $42 million in subsidies and for "defense features" such as double engine rooms to cut down the danger from torpedoes. The U.S. Lines will put up $28 million. With its 33-knot speed, the 2,000-passenger air-conditioned ship, to be launched in 1952, will have a good chance of breaking the transatlantic speed record...
...shipyard of John Brown & Co. There they cheered as Princess Elizabeth, in a new green coat and beret-like hat, with young Philip Mountbatten at her side, swung a bottle against the towering bow of the new Cunard White Star liner Caronia. Down the ways slid the 34,000-tonner, the biggest passenger ship launched anywhere since the war. The hull was towed to a dockyard basin, where it will need another ten months of outfitting before it is ready for service...
...Aluminum Co. of America announced that it has commissioned Manhattan's George G. Sharp & Co. to design a 7,780-ton, all-aluminum vessel; Manhattan's Gibbs & Cox, Inc., who designed the Liberty ships, will draw plans for a 10,280 tonner. Alcoa will build the one it likes, use it to haul bauxite from its mines in Moengo and Paranam, Dutch Guiana, to the U.S. for processing. But the primary purpose is to open up a vast new market for aluminum. Alcoa already has its foot in this door...
...convoy plowed westward deep into the Bismarck Sea before Kenney struck. High above the convoy, Fortresses first laid a closely woven pattern of bombs. A 6,000-ton Jap cargo ship broke in half. A 10,000-tonner, hit five times, went up in flames. Another cargo ship caught fire. Twice again that day, Fortresses and Liberators returned to the attack, shot down five defending Zeros...
...blood & steel. At the points of greatest crisis the Red Army brought up its precious KV tanks-precious because they were Russia's best and because they were so few. Censors permitted the first description of them. The KV (for Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov) is a massive 46-tonner, with a 76-mm. main gun and thick armor which turns shells from enemy 75s and is often proof against fire from the Germans' famed 88s. The Russians say that it is almost fireproof, a decided improvement over German, British and U.S. tanks...