Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palace. From then on, it was merely a matter of the routine haggling that each side expected of the other. Nasser stepped in personally to raise Egypt's compensation offer to $43 million, and the Sudanese were happy to accept after getting a greatly increased share (18.5 billion cubic meters v. 4 billion in the 1929 pact) of the increased water supply to be accumulated when Egypt's Aswan High Dam holds back the vast amount of wasted water that normally goes down into the Mediterranean every year. The successful talks were capped with a tidy $31 million...
...colonnade is 72 feet above ground. With temporary seats in the open end, the open end, the Stadium's capacity can be raised well above 40,000; the report of a 1929 meeting with Dartmouth puts the crowd at 60,000. In the entire structure there are 250,000 cubic feet of concrete--a mixture of Portland cement, sand and broken stone...
...that temperature, the hydrogen is hotter than the center of an exploding nuclear bomb. But the gas is spread so thin between the galaxies (fewer than ten atoms per cubic yard of space) that there is no appreciable heating effect on objects it surrounds. The heat merely makes it expand like any hot, unconfined gas; and since it fills the whole universe, the universe as a whole expands...
...else wanted. This week he was preparing to pile up another fortune, based this time on his nose for natural gas. His Associated Oil & Gas Co. announced that it has proved up perhaps the largest untapped gas field in gas-rich South Texas. Estimated reserves: a trillion cubic feet. But that was only Harry Mosser's opening card; he also announced a contract to sell 800 billion cu. ft. of gas to Coastal States Gas Producing Co. at 16? per thousand cu. ft. (with escalator clause), biggest such deal in years. Coastal will build a ten-inch pipeline from...
...natural gas-and oil is in such surplus-that the market has burgeoned, put a premium on gas discoveries. Mosser now has more than 18 oil and gas rigs drilling, brought in more than a dozen wells. He has two other promising fields that may well yield another trillion cubic feet of gas. Says Mosser: "We'll take the oil, but it's the gas we're really after...