Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember the day in June 1930," Esther E. Osgood '30 writes in her class reunion book, "When I threw away my old torn green and black bathrobe (which had seen me through senior year and generals), tossed all my college notes into Whitman Hall's second-floor trash barrel, and looked forward to the rest of my life." But the outside world was anything but promising then. The stock market had crashed the previous fall, and Herbert Hoover--still in the Oval Office--was formulating the radical Depression plan suggested by his assessment that "nobody in this country is starving...
Steam costs have increased from an average of 87 cents a unit in 1970-71 to $3.61 in 1978-79, Kaufmann said, adding that the University projects steam will cost $9.21 a unit next year if oil reaches $44 a barrel...
...liquefy the goo is to force superheated steam into deep crude wells for as long as two weeks at pressures as high as 2,500 lbs. per sq. in. The extraction also requires huge amounts of energy. Just to heat enough steam to liquefy and then force three barrels of heavy oil up a well shaft can take as much as one barrel of oil or its energy equivalent in the form of natural gas or coal...
...complications continue at the refinery. Heavy oil molecules, compared with those in lighter crudes, have a higher proportion of carbon atoms and fewer hydrogen atoms. Since the energy potential of oil depends on the number of hydrogens, 40% to 50% of a barrel of heavy oil comes out as low-energy, low-priced products, such as industrial fuel oil and bunker oil for ships. Getting more gasoline requires a multimillion-dollar investment in complex equipment to break down these heavy residual fuels...
...this is not two Hitlers, but Hitler and Mussolini. The song climaxes as Elvis taunts her for her shallowness: "You can't feel, you can't feel," his voice echoing in her vacuity, while Bruce Thomas's almost bored bass thrums luridly, watching Elvis pick off ducks in a barrel...