Word: tonning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barely Black. Newsprint, which can account for 50% of a paper's budget, has soared from $41 a ton in 1933 to $135. The Linotype machine that sold for $8,000 twenty years ago costs $20,000 today. Technological gains in efficiency are largely neutralized by the fact that powerful shop unions prevent management from cutting payrolls, even though only half as many men may actually be needed to tend the new equipment. Union "make-work" practices such as "bogus"-the needless resetting of ads originally received in mat or plate form-waste millions of dollars a year...
What is true of nails is equally true of many other products. Illinois farmers within a few miles of steel mills can buy imported barbed wire $40 a ton under the U.S. price. Five years ago U.S. auto exports were five times imports; today imports are nearly four times exports. Other consumer industries, ranging from fishing tackle and electric clocks to cameras, transistor radios, and generators are also running into stiff competition because the U.S. manufacturer cannot match the foreign seller, for reasons ranging from price to quality and delivery terms...
Attending as many surrenders as possible, De Henriquez snapped up thousands of small arms, plus three bridges, seven airplanes, four small submarines, eight ships, three armored trains, several concrete pillboxes, and a two-ton unexploded aerial bomb that he defused himself. His current collection includes almost every conceivable kind of military firearm of the past 500 years, an "iron maiden" and other torture instruments, 20 old castles and forts scattered across Italy...
...field with an average 25.2878 miles per gallon; a Rambler Deluxe was second, with a 22.9572-m.p.g. average. Third place was won by a Studebaker Lark Deluxe, with 22.4422. For the first time entries were judged this year on an actual miles-per-gallon basis instead of the ton-mileage formula used previously, which favored bigger, heavier cars...
...would have been unthinkable a few years ago. But the new search for offshore oil has developed machinery capable of doing it. The rig that appeals to AMSOC is the Cuss I (named for Continental, Union, Shell and Superior companies), a 3,000-ton barge with a 98-ft. drilling derrick mounted amidships. The drill is carried on gimbals, so that heavy seas will not snap the drill pipe...