Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though turn-of-the-century sewage control projects provided temporary improvement, they could not keep pace with the swelling population. After World War II, efforts at purification were set back further: detergents and other chemical effluents left the lower Thames covered with foam, literally choking the river to death. Deprived of oxygen, one fish species after another vanished. River passengers became ill from the rotten-egg aroma of hydrogen sulfide rising from the polluted waters...
...year of the Festival of Britain, a national celebration marking the centennial of the Great International Exposition of 1851, which gave hundreds of thousands of visitors to London a whiff of the gamy river. Properly embarrassed, the government appointed two study committees. The result: a comprehensive plan for pollution control that recommended, among other things, a halt to the use of nonbiodegradable detergents and to the dumping of industrial chemicals into the river. The planners also urged the construction of private treatment plants by factories producing wastes that could not be handled at municipal facilities...
...Rivers Pollution Act made compliance with many of these recommendations a matter of law, calling for fines of ?100 (now about $200) for violations. Few businessmen felt intimidated by that paltry penalty, but industry cooperated. Besides the $400 million spent by the water authority for pollution control, private firms have paid out upwards of $200 million for their own treatment plants. Is there a reason for this extraordinary and costly cooperation? Says a water authority spokesman: "The fortuitous thing about the Thames is that it runs beneath the nose of Parliament...
...courier on a Sunday, was copy-edited and flown to a Nashville plant to be set, and then rushed to Chicago, where the first 650,000 bound copies rolled off the presses at 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Said Co-Author Javers: "It was like writing a book by remote control...
...which to stretch his audacious talents. His descriptions of Kush indicate he could be one of our finest travel writers. His scenes of Ellelloū and his four wives again demonstrate that he is the master of reproducing the cold exchanges and icy silences of domestic warfare. His control of bizarre episodes-a U.S. AID adviser immolated atop a shipment of Kix Trix Chex Pops, Russian missile experts rollicking like Kievstone Kops, a severed head turned into a Disneyesque talking relic-steers him clear of gratuitous black humor...