Word: tons
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Empress of Britain. Seated on a workman's hoist at a Glasgow shipyard last week, H. R. H. Princess Mary rose vertically 100 feet in air, was swung onto the deck of the half-completed 40,000 ton Empress of Britain...
...whose good looks are only excelled by her tennis. In charge of supplies, she has in her train caviar, Swedish bread, 500 bottles of Munich beer, champagne, whiskey, brandy, a phonograph, 50,000 feet of motion picture film, three cameras, a dark room tent, a typewriter, face cream, a ton of Swiss chocolate...
...controlled by the Chilean Government and the Chilean producers. The export tax will be abolished, the Government will be recompensed by the new company. New fields will be opened; the price will be sharply dropped, perhaps by as much as $10 off the current price of $42 a ton. Conceivably, a price agreement will be reached with I. G. Farben. Guggenheims. While one great U. S. nitrogen power-Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.-will not take part in this effort at world rationalization, another U. S. group is vitally concerned. A huge investment in Chilean nitrates, amounting to perhaps...
...cabinet released copies of Italy's current warboat building program - prepared weeks ago but ominous enough to seem to Frenchmen like a postConference threat. Twenty-nine fighting ships will be laid down this year and built at a cost of $40,000,000: one 10,000-ton cruiser; two 5,100-ton flotilla leaders; four 1,240-ton destroyers and 22 submarines. At London Italy signed, as did France, that part of the Treaty which provides for "humanization of submarine warfare" (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.) but this in no way restricts the building of submarines...
Among the more bulky articles three gifts predominated a Ford car, of unknown value: a piano, and a ton of ancient magazines of all kinds. The piano will be sent to a Settlement House, while the magazines will be sent to the Merchant Marine for use of the sailors...