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  Logistics
It will be noted that each bar is divided in two parts, the portion on the left showing the dead-weight tonnage of the troop ships and that on the right the tonnage of the cargo ships.
To economize tonnage materials were obtained in Europe as far as possible, sometimes at high prices, The Engineer Corps ran its own quarries and its own logging camps and sawmills.
As the menace of the submarine became less acute, and as the need of ship tonnage for other supplies became more pressing, the required reserve was cut to 45 days; It will be seen from the diagram that at no time during the period of active operations did the reserve fall below this line.
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  Ludlow massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As was typical in the industry of that day, miners were paid by tons of coal mined and not reimbursed for "dead work," i.e., laying rails, timbering, and shoring the mines to make them operable.
Furthermore, the miners felt they were being short-changed on the weight of the coal they mined, arguing that the scales used for paying them were different from those used for coal customers.
Most miners also lived in "company towns" where homes, schools, doctors, clergy, and law enforcement were provided by the company, as well as stores offering a full range of goods that could be paid for in company scrip.
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 Notes and Definitions. The World Factbook. 2003
The PPP method involves the use of standardized international dollar price weights, which are applied to the quantities of final goods and services produced in a given economy.
DWT or dead weight tonnage is the total weight of cargo, plus bunkers, stores, etc. that a ship can carry when immersed to the appropriate load line.
GRT or gross register tonnage is a figure obtained by measuring the entire sheltered volume of the ship available for cargo and passengers and converting it to tons on the basis of 100 cubic feet per ton; there is no stable relationship between GRT and DWT.
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 LOWER - Online Information article about LOWER
The boilers constituted the heaviest individual pieces thus trans-ported, as the weight of each could not be reduced below 20 tons.
low speed, in which the weight of the engine is not of great importance, such as barges for use on rivers and canals, ferry-boats, small tug-boats, slow-speed cargo vessels and slow-speed oil-tank vessels, which have been fitted with engines using kerosene or See also:
Columbine," built on the so-called hydroplane principle in 191o, 26 ft. long, 65 H.P. and over 30 knots speed; the American yacht Kalmia," 83 ft. long, 14 ft. 3 in.
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 The World Factbook 2004 - Notes and Definitions
DWT or dead weight tonnage is the total weight of cargo, plus bunkers, stores, etc. that a ship can carry when immersed to the appropriate load line.
GRT or gross register tonnage is a figure obtained by measuring the entire sheltered volume of the ship available for cargo and passengers and converting it to tons on the basis of 100 cubic feet per ton; there is no stable relationship between GRT and DWT.
National estimates of the percentage of the population lying below the poverty line are based on surveys of sub-groups, with the results weighted by the number of people in each group.
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 Why War? Keywords: Displaced   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Another group of meanings of displacement is related to the measurement of a volume.
The displacement of a ship is its weight, which is directly related (via Archimedes' Principle) to the amount of water it displaces when it floats.
The displacement of an Otto or Diesel engine is the total amount of air it can draw in during one complete engine cycle; in a piston engine, this can be calculated by multiplying the number of cylinders by the area of a piston by the length of the stroke.
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 Ships
GLOBE OTTE (Norwegian whale catcher; 250-35 gross tonnage; 1400 hp; 13-15 knots) Outran a German raider in the Antarctic during the whaling season of 1941.
POL 7 (Norwegian whale catcher; 250-35 gross tonnage; 1400 hp; 13-15 knots) Outran a German raider in the Antarctic during the whaling season of 1941.
THORARIN (Norwegian whale catcher; 250-35 gross tonnage; 1400 hp; 13-15 knots) Outran a German raider in the Antarctic during the whaling season of 1941.
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 Reducing Marine Shipping Emissions
A detailed, ship-by-ship review was used to estimate emissions from ships transiting offshore Santa Barbara.
The inventory process gathered information on ship names, arrival and departure dates and direction, ship type (e.g., container, bulk carrier), flag, dead-weight tonnage, power, and average cruise speed.
As shown in the figure below, during the year 2005, there were 7,086 vessel transits along Santa Barbara County from 44 different countries.
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 War Shipping Administration Established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Order No. 9054
By V-J Day, the merchant fleet controlled by the U.S.A. had, in spite of enormous losses sustained during the war, reached 4,221 ships with a
By far most of the increased merchant fleet was obtained through the extraordinary wartime construction program, under which production miracles were achieved -- most spectacularly by Henry J. Kaiser; the remaining tonnage was acquired by charter agreements with owners of vessels.
For a long period early in the war there was a neck-and-neck race between ship construction and ship destruction by enemy submarines.
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