Word: tons
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...turbulent waters, must be picked by hand. Engineers are at present at work on a mowing machine which will stand rough seas, make production cheaper. Often the alga grows in water 60 ft. deep where only experienced divers can gather it. The factory has to pay $180 per ton to these seagoing harvest hands...
...Headed by Dr. Gordon Earle Richards, head of the X-ray department, Toronto General Hospital, and Dr. George William Ross, they organized Ontario Radium Corp. Last year they sent samples of their ore to England. There it was refined, meeting satisfactorily all necessary tests. The doctors found that one ton of their ore yielded 186 milligrams of radium. Belgian Congo mines which have been the world's richest give only no milligrams per ore ton...
Married. Margaret Helen Phipps, granddaughter of late Steelman Philanthropist Henry Phipps (died two weeks ago), cousin of Poloist Winston Guest, niece of Socialite Mrs. Bradley Martin; and J. Gordon Douglas Jr., son of Mrs. Graf ton Winthrop Minot of New York; at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City...
...work of getting the 10-ton bell off the truck trailer upon which it was moved and into the shack took a group of movers over four hours. In order to lower the huge chime to the ground, a runway had to be built from the rear of the truck and skids put under the bell to roll it down to the ground. At the first attempt the great weight splintered a pair of skids six inches by eight. While this work was going on, the driver of a passing truck stopped to read the Russian inscription on the bell...
...Hearst-papers would pay market prices for their newsprint from C. P. & P. Nevertheless, many a disgruntled member of the Institute felt certain that some concession, involved perhaps in an exchange of stocks, had the effect of C. P. & P. "shading" the Institute's price of $55.20 per ton. The sight of that plum (approx. $26,000,000 prospective annual business) being so plucked made other Institute members feel they had been left suddenly in the cold. They at once began to assert themselves. Col. Price, whose company, a low-price producer, might be in the thick...