Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tunnels as long as 470 yards were dug out by pick & shovel. Roadbeds were rebuilt by men carrying soil in baskets. Ballast-300,000 cubic meters of it-was made by men with steel hammers cracking big stones into little ones. As many as 80,000 laborers daily toiled to put the line through. Meanwhile, through UNRRA and CNRRA came desperately needed equipment to eke out the little on hand: almost a quarter-million ties from the U.S. and Canada, a few used locomotives and worn boxcars from Persia and Iraq, old rails of any weight, from any source...
...courier would have his hands full; in $2,000 Chinese bills, the payment would take up six cubic yards, equivalent in baggage bulk to two cords of kindling wood...
...growing venture was already under way. Last month Rockefeller sent two experts to Brazil with 250,000 cubic centimeters of vaccine to combat hog cholera. Rockefeller will subscribe $200,000 to the project, which will probably include a demonstration farm near São Paulo, but Brazilians will be invited to put up most of the money...
While doing antisubmarine research for the Navy, Jenkins and Bowen examined seawater under an ultraviolet microscope. Every cubic inch, they discovered, contained about 1,500,000 submicroscopic particles 1/50,000th of an inch in diameter. These particles reflect violet, blue and green light rays back to the surface, where they combine to give ocean water its characteristic color. When water looks green, it contains larger particles (silt or small living creatures) which reflect other kinds of light...
Developed by Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. at the University of Michigan, the vaccine is made by growing influenza virus in fertile hens' eggs, then killing the virus. The dead virus, injected under the skin, creates protective antibodies. A single small injection (one cubic centimeter) usually gives a year's immunity against the two major types of flu, A and B. But it is strictly a preventive. Inoculation does not help after exposure to the disease...