Word: ton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alaska's Eleanor Island come ashore in landing craft meant for infantry assaults. Off Kenai Peninsula, 200 miles away, the 425-ft. Soviet ship Vaydaghubsky stalks chocolate-colored oil on the high seas. At the top of Montague Strait, south of Valdez harbor, the 17,000-ton troopship U.S.S. Juneau has set anchor. The 400 men aboard are on an expedition to cleanse oil-stricken Smith Island before the annual arrival of seals...
...major power in civil aviation, the deal's supporters reply that Tokyo already has entered the field with willing help from U.S. aerospace firms. Japan is developing an advanced jet engine with U.S., British, Italian and West German companies and is building a rocket that may launch a two-ton satellite into orbit...
Bernard's skills are much in demand these days. Crank sales in the revitalized industry pushed past the $3 billion mark last year. And because the 25-ton annual demand exceeds manufacturing capacity, there has been a scramble to increase production. Here in the heartland of the meth outlaws, a territory beginning roughly at the southerly edges of the great Los Angeles metropolitan sprawl, anarchy has replaced the discipline of a monopoly maintained for decades under the mailed fist of the renegade motorcycle clubs. Southern California, a nose ahead of Texas, remains the manufacturing capital of the country, with scores...
...drawback to the process is that it requires electrodes made from the rare metal palladium, which is commonly used as a component of dental fillings. Palladium doesn't come cheap. Before the cold fusion breakthrough, it sold for about $5 million per ton, and the price is now rising...
QUICK, SEND OVER A TON OF PEPPERONI. AstroPizza, a joint venture between the city of Moscow and New Jersey's Roma Food Enterprises, was a hit from the moment its truck began hawking hot slices around Moscow last spring. But when Roma resumes sales this month after a winter break, the company will once again have to ship all the fixings from New Jersey because it has been unable to find decent tomatoes, cheese and other ingredients in the U.S.S.R...