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MEXICAN NATURAL GAS will be imported into U.S. for first time. Federal Power Commission gave final approval to 20-year deal between Mexico's Pemex oil and gas agency and Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. to import some 200 million cu. ft. daily for Eastern customers. Texas Eastern will spend $83 million on a program which includes a 30-in. pipeline running 422 miles from Mexican border at McAllen, Texas, to Beaumont...
...Eastern supplies if Federal Power Commission approves. At cost of $166 million, Tennessee Gas wants to add 1,085 miles of new pipe and a series of bigger compressor stations to boost capacity of 2,200-mile system running from Texas to New England by 456 million cu. ft. daily, bring it to nearly 2.5 billion cu. ft. capacity...
...missing. He needed a beach of his own. To get the coral for a beach base, Kaiser dredged a lagoon (wangling the necessary permission, including an act of Congress). In the center of the lagoon, he placed a tiny island. When he surfaced off his beach with 30,000 cu. yds. of sand, Kaiser owned the widest beach in Waikiki, named it after Duke Kahanamoku, onetime Hawaiian swimming champ...
...tonnage, the standard U.S. yardstick for merchant ships, is the number of long tons (2,240 Ibs.) a ship can carry when fully loaded. Other ways of sizing up a ship: displacement tonnage, internationally used to measure naval vessels, is figured by computing the weight of sea water (35 cu. ft. weighs one long ton) a ship displaces when loaded: gross registered tonnage, usually used to measure passenger liners, is a nautical monstrosity, arrived at by computing the total enclosed space on the ship in cubic feet and dividing by 100 to get the tonnage. One deadweight ton equals approximately...
Unaided by such mechanical coincidences, a bright red 1956 Chrysler 300-6, owned by Outboard Motor Manufacturer Carl Kiekhaefer and driven by last year's N.A.S.C.A.R. Champion Tim Flock, turned in the fastest flying mile of the unlimited displacement (over 350 cu. in.) class: 139.373 m.p.h. Chryslers of the same model ran the mile at least 10 m.p.h. slower. To get such spectacular performance out of his big (340 h.p.) car, Kiekhaefer kept his highly trained mechanics working for weeks at tuning the engine, test-driving the car, turning the tires down on a tire lathe until they were...