Word: canyoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estimate of its discoverers, is capable of being produced commercially at prices competitive with other high-strength steels. It may some day be used in the manufacture of deep-diving descendants of such undersea vessels as the bathyscaphe and the three-man submarine Alvin, which is now exploring a canyon at the foot of the Atlantic shelf at depths of 1,000 fathoms...
...automated regularity of the "San Francisco Bay Bridge from Yerbe Buen Island" (1953). Adams chooses to portray the bridge in a straightaway perspective with its vanishing point squarely centered: Beetle-like automobiles march toward infinity in formation, as do the landscapes achieve an effect perilously close to the Canyon's rocks...
...March, the grounded tanker Torrey Canyon spewed some 90,000 tons of crude oil into the coastal waters off southwestern Britain. Though only part of the oil reached the beaches, the accident cost Britain $7,000,000 in cleanup charges, polluted the sea from Cornwall to Brittany and dealt heavy damage to marine life in the area. And there are other vessels afloat that could make an even bigger mess...
...River, eleven gallons of 50% Polycomplex A were sprayed on a 110-gallon oil slick. In two minutes, only a thin brown film remained; soon that disappeared. Similar tests conducted in tanks ashore proved just as successful. Six parts of Kuwait crude oil-the type carried by the Torrey Canyon-were dispersed by one part of Polycomplex A in five minutes...
...seas, where $26,400 worth of detergents are required to disperse 100 tons of floating oil, with no assurance that it will not subsequently coalesce again. The cost of the Guardian dispersal agent would be around $7,000 per hundred tons of oil-which would have made the Torrey Canyon bill about $6,000,000. Because less foam is required with the Esso technique, it could further reduce the expense of oil dispersal to about $1,300 per hundred tons-plus the cost of application and collection-if it proves successful on the open ocean...