Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freedom has a special meaning for these people. this one city suffered a sixth of the damage--2,625,000,000 cubic feet of rubble--inflicted on all of Germany. Destruction was a chastising lesson in itself but since the war the West Berliner has had newer reminders of totalitarianism right in his own yard. He can never forget that he is 200 miles from the nearest western outpost, that sudden disappearances are commonplace, and that 350 refugees pour into his sector every...
...ways of handling blood so that all its parts will be as fully utilized as a pig in a packinghouse. Of outstanding importance was the news about red cells. There are 5,000,000 or more of these (each about one four-thousandths in. in diameter) in a cubic-millimeter droplet of blood. It has always been easy to separate them, and recently a method of freezing them in glycerin was perfected. The trick is to get them out of the giycerin undamaged, and that has taken hours of complex effort...
...Cambridge cosmic model is the "steady state universe" featuring the startling principle of "continuous creation" (TIME, Nov. 20, 1950). In each several million cubic feet of space, it teaches, one atom of hydrogen is created every year. Some act of creation is unavoidable, say the Cambridge men (because the universe exists); their single assumption is much less arbitrary than assuming the creation of the whole universe jammed tightly and hotly together...
...TEXAS OILFIELD may turn out to be a major discovery. In the Panhandle's Gray County, Phillips Petroleum Co.'s No. 1 Delp well has produced 3,720 barrels of oil a day on tests, plus 6.6 million cubic feet of natural gas. Geologists believe that the oil-famous Anadarko basin, major Oklahoma producer, has finally been traced into Texas...
...Syria 143%, Iraq 183%. Lebanon 37%. One difficulty is that in the vast dry-land area between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, only one of six major rivers-Lebanon's Litani-runs its entire length within a single country. To store and use the 44 billion cubic feet of water that the Jordan River pours annually into the Dead Sea, for example, would require an agreement between Israel, Syria and Jordan. On the Jordan, a solution to the thousand-year water problem could bring not only economic survival but peace. It is blocked by a heritage of hatred...