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Blowing Whale. The heavy lower point, Adams explains, will be attached in such a way that the pressure or temperature at a predetermined depth will release it. Freed from this ballast, the needle will be lighter than molten rock, and it will float instead of sinking. At last it will surface like a blowing whale, bringing with it samples of deep-down lava that have forced their way into depressions in its shell...
...series of angry complaints. Most collective farmers do not know the first thing about using chemical fertilizer; the Ukraine is planning a crash program to educate 4,000 "skilled fertilizer appliers." Superphosphate fertilizer arrives at the farms with only 20% of the required chemical nutrients; the rest is worthless ballast that gets lumpy and heavy in the rain. Russia has an impressive 561 soil laboratories, but most of them have only one or two employees and the wrong equipment...
...more manifesto than reminiscence. Delaney pokes out her pert proletarian tongue at the Establishment; Kops throws a whole coster's barrowful of dead haddock. Both have produced fascinating documents and useful items for those who like to plot the course of British society now that the imperial ballast is gone, and the old class compass is out of whack. Both work in the theater; Delaney's A Taste of Honey was a hit play when she was 19, and Kops is resident dramatist at the Bristol Old Vic. Both are virtuosos at the art of self-dramatization...
Zeckendorf has always depended for balance on his ability to shuffle his properties about like ballast, but the shuffling has suddenly gotten a lot harder. New York City's Freedomland, which Zeckendorf hoped would catch on as a kind of Disneyland East, has turned out to be a tunnel of horrors, lost several million dollars last year. His scheme for selling his hotels and leasing them back has backfired because of falling occupancy rates and higher costs. The softening real estate market has forced him to defer many of his plans to sell off Webb & Knapp buildings to raise...
...actual diving conditions during which Thresher died, survival could come only with the crew closing off such a flow within seconds. »The air pressure system had been leaky. To surface in an emergency, a submarine must have high air pressure to blow water from its ballast tanks and give buoyancy. In a flooding situation, anything less than full pressure would drastically slow down water ejection from the tanks-a fatal defect at Thresher's maximum depth. »Portsmouth workers installed 20% of the hydraulic-system valves backwards, inspected and approved their handiwork in that condition. When a control...