Word: ton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never come up." He saw a shell hit a beached landing craft, "flames everywhere, men burning alive." And again: "Direct hit on 2½-ton truck gasoline load; another catches fire ... men's clothes on fire ... attempt to roll in sand to put out flames...
...Louis, Clifford is lecturing almost daily about Truman and his times. Tuesday is Truman's 100th birthday, and the celebrations climax with a town party in Independence, Mo., a joint session of Congress, a luncheon with Ronald Reagan as host, and a huge reception in Washing ton for the dwindling band of men and women who were with Truman and for the growing army of those who wish they had been...
Hammer is not concerned about the recent weak price of coal, which dropped from $52 to $40 a ton in the important Japanese market last year. He believes oil prices are on the rebound and that the price of coal will go up. In the Chinese deal, the price will be allowed to float with world supply and demand, but the miners' wages still have to be worked out. At one point, the Chinese insisted that their miners be paid $12 an hour, nearly what U.S. miners get on average. Occidental thought that was unreasonable...
...official "loser" the first place raft, because victory goes to the second place craft--was the Mather House crew, sporting a half-ton structure that was the result of three months of planning...
...their second day in space, Challenger's crew deployed an eleven-ton, school bus-size cylinder that contained 57 experiments contributed by nearly 200 scientists in nine countries. That device, called a long-duration exposure faculty, will remain in space until it is hauled in by a shuttle vehicle next February. It will gather data on how such materials as shrimp eggs, tomato seeds and plastics fare in space. It will also take samples of interstellar gas to learn more about the evolution of the universe. Inside the spacecraft another, more active scientific venture was also going...