Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Each was a giant thermos bottle, cunningly built to contain a strange substance-natural gas reduced to liquid under intense cold. One tank leaked slightly, but it was repaired. After that the tanks performed a miracle of storage. The liquid they held, when vaporized would become 240,000,000 cubic feet of inflammable gas. One afternoon last week, a white, cloudlike stream squirted from one of them. A thick fog drifted up. Then the whole sky ignited, and men working in the open company yard crisped and died like moths...
...Lieut. Colonel Frederick Borth, former professor of the Louisiana State University. . . made the mild observation that in connection with the handling of toilet-paper rolls, the Army was shipping thousands of cubic feet of air space overseas daily. So why not bale toilet paper...
...time, no one except "Mike Scat" could get the garbage-collecting contract. The law provides that a bidder for the contract must own a garbage dump; an incinerator would not do. Mike owns several dumps along New Jersey's Hackensack River, whence he sells his swill by the cubic yard to pig farmers...
...healing dose is "measured by the 100th parts of a cubic centimeter" of ACS, injected under a patient's skin or into a vein. Two doses may last a lifetime. Large doses are harmful and are never used. Minute amounts make tissue activity speed up. Professor Bogomoletz believes that probable longevity goes with each dose, no matter for what reason it is given...
...silica gel was first produced commercially (for use in gas masks) in World War I. It also has industrial uses as a dehydrator and catalyst. Made by drying a gelatinous form of silicon dioxide, silica gel looks like crushed quartz, is riddled with invisible pores so numerous that a cubic inch has more than 50,000 square feet of interior surface. By adsorption (sticking of moisture to the surface), silica gel can hold half its own weight in water without swelling, caking or developing a visible sweat...