Word: cu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through a Roman-style aqueduct tunneled under the surrounding mountains, electric pumps began sluicing 4,500,000 cu. ft. of water per day. Nearly three years later, the level of the lake lowered some 60 feet, two crumbling skeleton frameworks lay exposed. Made of oak, pine and fir, covered with woolen cloth and sheathed outside with lead studded with bronze, the saucer-bottomed ships were 220 and 235 feet long. To facilitate navigation on the tiny lake, a pair of rudders could be fixed to either end of each barge. Lead piping indicated that fountains and gardens had once decorated...
...possibility of a new market for ice machinery: plants to freeze and store food for the public. The idea took years to catch on. But today thousands of farmers go to cold-storage locker plants, rent lockers big enough to hold 250 Ibs. of meat (or 6½ cu. ft. of any food) for $10 a year. The plants quick-freeze their meat. They also slaughter animals (at $2 a head for cattle, $1.50 for hogs, 75? for sheep) and prepare and freeze vegetables or fruits for 2½-3? a pound...