Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italians have used volcanic steam in Tuscany for more than a century. New Zealand has recently drilled for steam and has already found enough of it to supply power for a city of 200,000 people. In many parts of the world are places where the earth's crust grows hot a few hundred feet below the surface. It would not take much brains or money, Ley thinks, to harness this energy...
...British to hold it. Now, shorn of both money and influence, the family has one great fear: change. They don't like to see people with foreign names getting rich and powerful. They are clannish to the point of absurdity, persist in thinking that they are the upper crust of East Bank long after most East Bankers have begun to laugh behind their stiff, straight backs...
...well that goes down 12,000 ft. into the earth's crust is unusual. Only rarely have oil companies, e.g., Humble Oil, Gulf Oil, drilled below 15,000 ft. But in the little town (pop. 1,800) of Wiggins, Miss., there was a well that oilmen wondered about for years. A hearty, smooth-jowled man named George F. Vasen drilled deeper and deeper until he reached 20,450 ft., the second deepest well through the crust on record.* Although there were no other wells near Wiggins, Wildcatter Vasen insisted that there was an immense "Atlantic Ocean of oil" below...
...thousand feet, the Japanese current could pass through to melt the Arctic pack ice, and submerge the lower parts of all continents. Unfortunately for this theory, John Wolback points out that the four most recent glaciers have grown and died since the last significant distortion of the earth's crust...
...establish one. In 1840 a delegation of Jesuit priests, cautiously clad in secular clothes with top hats, paid ?5,800 for the Farm Street leasehold in what was then a stifling congestion of stables and cab-choked cobble streets. But as Mayfair spread out and the Edwardian upper crust turned the stables into mews flats, Farm Street became top-drawer. The best known Farm Street figure of this elegant era was handsome, well-born Father Bernard Vaughan, whose sermons packed such dramatic punch that professional actors came to church for pointers...