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Navy oceanographers found that one-tenth of the ice melts each summer, and the ice layer's thickness is reduced to two or three meters. At present, the pack contains only 6,500 cubic miles of ice (barely enough to cover the state of Texas with a 125-ft. layer), and it is steadily shrinking. Since 1900, the thickness of the polar icecap has decreased by three feet because of higher general temperatures...
...utility rates to return a reasonable profit on the company's investment, valued gas produced by the pipeline companies according to the cost of drilling wells and taking out the gas. As a result, the price of gas produced by Panhandle was valued at only 85? a thousand cubic feet, about one-tenth of the market price...
Cornigliano is a study in superlatives: Italy's biggest single postwar industrial construction, its biggest steel plant, its biggest ECA project. Three years and 44 million man-hours went into building Cornigliano; just to create its 250-acre site near Genoa, a million cubic yards of rubble fill were dumped into the Ligurian Sea. Cornigliano was to vitalize Italy's struggling steel industry, help cut its production costs 40% and raise its output 75%. The goal: to make Italian steel competitive for just about the first time since the Etruscans pounded out iron for the Greek trade...
...Marian, the foreman of a local lumberyard, and came to realize that the lumberyard itself provided an ideal avenue of escape for himself and his family. A flatcar of lumber due for export, he reasoned, could easily be loaded in such a way that a space of two cubic yards would be left free inside. Muffled within such a rolling coffin, even the cries of the children should pass undetected. Just to make sure, however, Bedrich planned to keep the children drugged during the trip...
Cool & Dry. Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed off five room air conditioners, its first in eleven years, priced from $320 to $595. It also demonstrated a new electric dehumidifier that plugs into any 115-volt socket, removes up to 3 gals, of water from 10,000 cubic ft. of air each 24 hours, also doubles as a space heater in cool weather. Price...