Word: cu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominy's recommendation, Udall ordered Glen Canyon's gates opened. That was like pulling the plug on one bathtub and letting the water drain into another (see map). In this case, the Glen Canyon water flowed, at 18,000 cu. ft. per sec., 370 miles downriver to Lake Mead and Hoover Dam. The water is still running, which is fine for the folks in Phoenix and Los Angeles. But the water loss to the Upper Basin is drying up Lake Powell, and with it the hopes there for new electric power in the near future...
...great deal more natural gas than oil. Gas finds have been made in western Victoria, New South Wales and in South Australia. A combine made up of Delhi-Taylor and Santos, Ltd. has struck two wells 500 miles north of Adelaide with a potential flow of 30 million cu. ft. per day, and last week the Australian-owned Associated Group struck its 21st gas well in the Roma region of Queensland. Associated is already talking of a 280-mile pipeline to carry gas to Brisbane's burgeoning and power-hungry industry, and of a petrochemical complex for making products...
...When I came here four years ago," says William O. Kelleher, president of Sears, Roebuck in Brazil, "we were selling a 7-cu.-ft. refrigerator for 49,000 cruzeiros. Today that same refrigerator sells for 227,000." Coca-Cola raised its prices three times in 1963. General Electric writes a clause into its sales contracts that allows for adjustments in the delivery price to compensate for inflation, and IBM does the same in its computer-rental contracts...
Designed - 4.1 million cu...
...expanded so fast that his factories continually smell of fresh paint. A stocky, bull-necked man who occasionally strips to the waist and works on a machine in his factory, Borghi relentlessly replaced men with machines, made his company so efficient that it now sells a bigger refrigerator (4.25 cu. ft.) for $95 than it used to sell...