Word: chimneyed
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...that women are doing is almost endless. In Canada, lumberjacks have been joined by lumber-Jills. In the U.S. this summer, the Good Humor man may as often as not be a Good Humor woman. In Europe, women have turned into bricklayers, painters, welders, cabinetmakers, watch repairmen, goldsmiths, pharmacists, chimney sweeps and even traveling saleswomen. No less than 85% of Finland's dentists are female, and so are a quarter of the physicians. In both Japan and France, there are women firemen. Norway, like the U.S. and other countries, has hired femailmen to carry letters, and around the world...
...about 11 p.m. yesterday the chimney of the Harvard Square Theatre belched out the first of several blasts of smoke from a fire caused by a leaky oil burner...
...period, cotnpared with only 10% that would be recovered by hydraulic fracturing or nitroglycerin blasting. Within a minute after the searing blast formed a 160-ft.-diameter cavity in the earth, they calculate, the roof of the cavity should Save begun to collapse (TIME, Nov. 3), eventually forming a chimney of fractured rock as tall as a 35-story building. In addition, cracks should have radtiated out for hundreds of feet beyond the chimney, providing routes for gas; flow...
...Trillion Cubic Feet. Although preliminary instrument checks at the site indicate that th| subterranean chimney is already filial with gas, several months will pass before scientists can determine how successful Operation
Gasbuggy really is. After drilling a well to the top of the chimney, they will tap off gas freed by the explosion and test it for radioactivity. If the radioactive contamination is low enough for the gas to be usable without extensive -and expensive-purification, and if the gas continues to flow into the well in volume, the U.S. may well be on its way to tapping the 300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas now tightly locked beneath the surface of the earth...