Word: barrelism
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...that celebration marked the end of an era--after that, the ethnics took over. From 1900-1930, Velucci insists, the Irish "had complete control of city hall, lock, stock and barrel. They had control of the school department, they had the mayor and the city council. There were Irish teachers being appointed, and cops and firemen and city laborers. Tip O'Neill's father was sewer commissioner, a friend of his ran the water department." Hard on the heels of the Irish, the Portuguese, the Italians and the French reached the far shore of the Charles. "Between them, they took...
...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...