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...this made headlines-and ob scured the fact that Howard Hughes, 61, has quietly been making news of his own. Picking up properties around Las Vegas, he has, in addition to the Sands and Desert Inn, bought Alamo Airways and the Krupp ranch in Red Rock Canyon. Hughes already owned 30,000 acres of Nevada land...
...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...
...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...