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Last week, the first big U.S. experiment with the process got under way at the Alabama Power Co.'s Gorgas mine, 55 miles northwest of Birmingham. (A small-scale test at the same site two years ago gave promising but inconclusive results.) A thermite bomb was exploded 160 ft. below the surface, at the bottom of a borehole at the south end of the seam. Running northward through the coal for 1,200 ft. were two parallel entries (tapped by additional boreholes every 300 ft.) through which air could be driven under pressure...
...beginning of the test, the gaseous outpourings of Alabama's man-made inferno were drawn off at Borehole No. 2, limiting the combustion to the first 300-ft. stretch. The underground temperature went up to 900° F. Later it might go as high as 3,000° F. No immediate attempt was made to produce a useful, combustible gas: the first thing was to see how steadily the coal could be made to burn. Later, hot air, steam or oxygen could be fed into Borehole No. 1 to make a variety of gases with different chemical and thermal...
Brantly Harris of Winthrop House and Galveston, Texas; Winthrop House Committee, Crimson Key, Tennis Team. Donald C. Duncan of Winthrop House and Searsdale, New York; House Football, House Crew. J. Fairley McDonald of Dunster House and Montgomery, Alabama; Glee Club, Band...
Last week, Kentucky's grim basketballers took the ax to Alabama (74-32), then ran Mississippi through the grinder (85-31). Next on the list was Georgia Tech. One man from Tech heatedly denied that the team was worried about the trip to Lexington. Said he in a slow drawl: "We adore playing them, because when they get beat they take it so hard." But Kentucky, currently ranked No. i by the nation's sportwriters' poll,* hadn't lost a home game in seven years. Down went Georgia Tech...
...Alabama 43, Mississippi State...