Word: tonning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pajamas and a hospital blanket, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles got into a wheelchair at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital just before 10:30 one morning last week, was wheeled down to a concrete-walled basement room 20 ft. square. A 1½-ton, lead-shielded door closed behind him as orderlies helped him onto a table. From the ceiling, doctors and orderlies pulled down the snout of a huge, telescope-like General Electric X-ray machine and pointed it at the patient's lower abdomen...
Prosperity's Victims. Harlan's crisis has a combination of sources. For one, demand for its rich bituminous coal will never again match the good old days of the '20s, when production zoomed to 14.5 million tons a year. For another, Harlan's miners, members of the U.M.W. for the past 18 years, are in a sense victims of other miners' prosperity. Rising labor costs (Harlan operators have so far refused to sign a new U.M.W. contract under which miners would get $14.25 a day to enter a mine, 76? more per ton to load...
...sleek, 2,200-ton yacht Lapu Lapu knifed across Tokyo Bay on a trial run at 17 knots, and in her wake eddied a succession of troubles for Carlos Garcia, President of the Philippine Republic. One of 15 ocean-going vessels to be built by the Japanese as war reparations to the Philippines, the Lapu Lapu* cost $2,500,000, is 275 feet long and powered by diesel engines. She will carry a crew of 92, and has room for 48 passengers...
Dressed in mothballs, the 11,141-ton Navy hospital ship Consolation now rides quietly at a San Francisco pier. But next fall she is scheduled to cast off and establish an imaginative medical precedent: a tour of Southeast Asia as a floating U.S. hospital and medical school...
Last fall Red China was dumping cement in Hong Kong at uneconomic prices in an effort to drive Japanese producers out of the market; today Red Chinese cement cannot be bought in Southeast Asia at any price. Indonesia is told that it will get its promised 200,000 tons of rice this year not from China but through Russia, and that it must pay $8.40 a ton more for it. Everywhere Chinese Communist commercial agents are turning away orders for products that require extensive hand labor...