Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neutralized by other noises (TIME, Dec. 15). Workmen will hear only enough sound to prevent them from being distracted by complete silence. They will be illuminated by constant artificial daylight containing a small percent of healthy ultraviolet, will breathe air which has been washed, heated, humidified. The ten million cubic feet of air will be changed every ten minutes. Contaminating gases and machine dirt are to be drawn out through hoods into an underground exhaust system...
...Engineers (who have excavated 600,000 cubic yards of dirt and poured 12,000 cubic metres of concrete at Cheliabinsk since last July) waiting angrily for steel to erect the world's largest tractor factory. . . . Three hundred and eighty U. S. machinists making tractors in Stalingrad at a wage of $10 daily with cognac, wine and beer abundant...
...second floor will be devoted to offices, conference rooms and a section for high frequency and radio research work. The latter will be located near the Cruft Laboratory end. According to the contractor's specifications, the new building will have a volume of about 500,000 cubic feet and the walls of the library, lecture room, and corridors will be coated, with a special sound-absorbing, plaster, invented by Professor Sabine...
...President Hoover wanted him to find out how the $325,000,000 flood control program was progressing, how navigational improvements along the stream were getting on, what could be done to speed up the work as an aid to unemployment. To date 20,000 men have put 70 million cubic yards of dirt into new levees at a cost of $90,000,000-and the project is not one-sixth completed. With Secretary Hurley went Mayor Generals Lytle Brown, Chief of Engineers, and Thomas Q. Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp. The War Secretary would begin...
...also contracted to supply those cities which North American Light & Power Co. is serving (through subsidiaries) with manufactured gas in Illinois and Missouri. Distribution will be carried out by a new Missouri-Kansas company, Panhandle Eastern Co., with a potential daily capacity of 250,000,000 cubic feet of gas. But Missouri-Kansas will need many a new gas field, and many a new customer before it can surpass the 1929 record of the biggest U. S. natural gas corporation- Columbia Gas & Electric. Last year Columbia sold 144.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas to 1,000,000 customers...