Word: cubic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Near the headwaters of California's two most important river systems, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, great dams such as Shasta, Folsom, Friant and Pine Flat curbed angry water that might have caused infinitely more damage and death. At flood's height, more than 200,000 cubic feet of water a second poured into the reservoir back of the Sacramento's Shasta Dam, which shrank the downstream rush to only 16,000 cubic feet a second, saving the rich Sacramento Valley...
...ridges, laid out like city streets around a central plaza. The ridges look like defensive works, but Ford thinks they were built for people to live on. Their total length is 11.2 miles, and when newly built, they must have contained more than 530,000 cubic yards of earth...
...second biggest rolled-fill earth dam in the world, across the unpredictable Missouri River at Garrison, N.D. Garrison Dam, a project of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Army Engineers and the state of North Dakota, already stands 200 feet high and 2½ miles long; its 70 million cubic yards of earth and stone exceed by 20 times the bulk of Egypt's Great Pyramid. It is scheduled for completion next year...
...Israelis rejoiced last week over their advance into the Negev, more sober officials realized that they had gone about as far south as they could go. In committing the Yarkon they had mortgaged almost their entire available water supply. (In fact, part of the annual 7 trillion cubic feet of water that will flow through the pipeline will be reclaimed from Tel Aviv's sewers...
...Continental Divide (TIME, May 10, 1954). It has been ticklish work; the very reason for blasting away the hillside was that it threatened to slide into and block the canal-carrying with it the nervy men who were destroying it. Last week the danger ended. With 3,000,000 cubic yards of rock removed, engineers believed that the remaining potential slide-rock was too light to break loose. They will go on to remove the last 500,000 cubic yards, however. Then Contractor's Hill, once a sheer wall when seen from the canal, will be a terraced slope...