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...fight last week stemmed from Carter's proposal to 1) retain federal price controls on natural gas sold across interstate lines but 2) raise the ceiling from $1.47 to $1.75 per thousand cubic feet (m.c.f). That scheme made it through the House, but the gas industry's friends in the Senate wanted to abolish controls altogether, which would leave the price to be set by free-market forces. Byrd plumped for Carter's bill. He sensed, however, that he would lose in the Senate, which would vote to lift price ceilings. Nonetheless, he figured that any decontrol...
...matter which proposal Congress finally accepts on natural gas, prices will almost certainly go up. How much, no one knows for sure. About half the homes and 40% of the industries in the U.S. use natural gas. The current federal price ceiling is $1.47 per thousand cubic feet (m.c.f.) for gas that is sold across state lines. Gas that is produced and sold within the same state is not subject to federal price controls and fetches anywhere fron $2.00 to $2.25 per m.c.f...
...Middle Eastern sands. Few of the celebrated French engineers De Lesseps invited to inspect his plan approved it (among the doubters: Gustave Eiffel, the tower builder). The doubts were soon borne out: in 1889, De Lesseps' company went bankrupt. By that time, the French had moved 50 million cubic meters of earth?two-thirds of the amount moved at Suez. In the process, some 20,000 workers died of malaria and yellow fever (whose causes were thought to be noxious jungle vapors and immoral living rather than bacteria-carrying mosquitoes). Originally known as "the Great Frenchman," De Lesseps came...
...magic combination of confinement time, temperature and plasma density necessary to sustain fusion. At the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, scientists regularly heat the plasma in the Princeton Large Torus until it glows like an ectoplasmic bagel and have just achieved a density of 1014 particles per cubic centimeter, a confinement time of .10 second and a temperature of 35 million degrees Celsius...
...scope of McCullough's book is enormous: he illuminates the arenas of politics, finances, science, engineering and sociology. He moves through his subject like one of those 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovels that gnawed their way across Panama. Facts are turned up by the cubic yard, sorted and arranged into a smooth, efficient narrative. Statistics sometimes tend to overwhelm the reader, but there are moments when numbers become all too human. Said one West Indian laborer about the frequent dynamite accidents: "The flesh of men flew in the air like birds many days...