Word: cu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mixermobile Manufacturers' huge-mawed "Scoopmobile," one of the largest tractor scoops in production, which takes six to eight cu. yds. of earth and rock per load. Price...
...Allis Chalmers' 25-ton, 280-h.p. motor scraper, with top capacity of 20 cu. yds. Its business end is shaped like a garden shovel...
...General Motors' rubber-tired, 518-h.p. Goliath scraper, which takes 24 cu. yds. of aggregate with one bite of its 14-ft. bulldozer blade. Each of its two diesels connects with a single track, so that one track can continue forward while the other reverses, spinning the giant around...
...fixing rules because there is no clause in the Natural Gas Act that keeps consumers from buying gas directly from the wells and setting their own prices. Two big Florida utilities, Florida Power & Light and Florida Power Corp., will buy 60% of the pipeline's daily 250 million-cu.-ft. capacity directly from Texas and Louisiana producers, merely pay the pipeline a flat fee for transportation...
...magical was the effect on Chicago's Sanitary District, which for years has been pressing for greater water diversion to aid Chicago sewage disposal as well as inland navigation. Twice since 1953 it has seen Congress pass and President Eisenhower veto bills authorizing experimental increases to 2,500 cu. ft. a second for three years, during which time the Army engineers would be supposed to study the effects on the lakes. Now, by virtue of the decree, it had won-even though for a limited period-not only more water for itself but a chance to check how badly...