Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose, Fuller says, is to explore "the borderline areas of technology . . . that industry cannot undertake. Bucky believes his researches into the structure of such things as crystals, stars and atoms will result in brand-new principles of building construction. Present-day houses weigh about 22 Ibs. per cubic ft.; Bucky has plans for a new house he calls "Geodesic" which he hopes will weigh only 1 Ib. per 50 cubic ft. If this one turns out to be practical, no one will ever again chuckle at Bucky's dreams...
...used for radio. At the moment, however, all WBZ's "live" television is shot in the first studio, a two-story room equipped with the newest in lighting. Compensating for the heat produced by floods, spots and a dozen banks of base lighting, ceiling air units pump in 8200 cubic feet of air per minute, thus completely changing the air every 11 minutes...
...five-hour work of the Leverett House Civic Improvement Society was buried yesterday under a cubic yard of asphalt blacktop, but the Society is happy about the whole thing...
Naturally, a structure of such proportions was a spectacular job of engineering. Fifty thousand tons of steel rest on 50,000 cubic yards of concrete. The mammoth concrete piers on which the main truss rests go down some 83 feet below the water line--making these huge abutments the largest of their kind in the country. Dozens of homes were transported intact away from the 60 foot strip that the bridge's approaches carve through Chelsea and Charlestown. In many respects the engineering was equally as remarkable as in the construction of the John Hancock building...
...transferring it in a standard vacuum blood container to the veins of the convict. Next, they took a pint of his blood, gave it to her. Then the exchange was made pint-for-pint for four days (a five-hour session each day) until a total of 9,000 cubic centimeters (18 pints) had been interchanged. Last week, the transfer over, the lifer went back to his cell, the girl to her Manhattan home...