Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...produced in large commercial quantities only at the 18-acre Government plant at Soncy, seven miles from Amarillo, Tex. There by a complicated process of washing, cooling, and separation it is extracted from the natural gas underlying that area. Present production is about 5,000,000 cubic feet out of a 24,000,000 cubic foot annual capacity-with reserves estimated at enough for the next 5,000 years. Two other small plants in the U. S. at Dexter, Kans. and Thatcher, Colo., for which the Government is now dickering with Girdler Corp., have together produced about...
...acre if mineral production was not begun within twelve months, was registered on March 24, 1933, two months before the TVA was sanctioned by Congress. Formed chiefly with Berry money, the Imperial Marble Co. has since been quarrying some marble each year, has sold in 1936-37 9,972 cubic feet at about $2.25 a foot. After the Norris Dam spread Norris Lake over part of their holdings, Imperial Marble continued to make shipments by boat over the lake to be delivered in Knoxville. These shipments, costing 21? a cubic foot more than overland shipments, figured prominently in Major Berry...
...Scott's device is a large box (cubic content: one yard) mounted on a table. To prevent any annoying reflection, the outside of the box is painted black. The inside is a very pure white. All around the edge of the affair, which is open on one side, are rows of colored lights which are mounted so as to provide only reflected illumination...
...commercial exploitation behind laboratory research was remarkably short. Indolebutyric acid, one of the Boyce Thompson stimulants, has already been placed on the market by several manufacturers as a root stimulator for cuttings. Merck Chemical Co. sells it as "Hormodin A" at a price of $2 for 15 cubic centimetres, which, diluted upwards of 6,000 times, is enough for about 1,500 cuttings. Pennsylvania Chemical Corp. markets it under the name of "Auxilin" at a price of $1 per half ounce. The prospect is that in ten years the nurseryman who neglects to stimulate his cuttings with root activators will...
...cubic feet of gas per day; 20,000-gallon treatments, as compared to 3,000 in your article, are not unusual...