Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many have been the attempts to isolate the virus which causes measles. All have been unsuccessful. The best method of combatting the disease yet found was perfected by Dr. William Hallock Park of the New York Health Department. Thirty cubic centimetres of blood are drawn from the elbow of a person who has had measles, are injected into the child. If the child is over five years old the dose is doubled Half of the blood goes into the right buttock, half into the left. Consequences: a mild, immunizing case of measles, an inability to sit comfortably...
Causing all this trouble was one of the biggest gushers ever blown in, No. 1 Mary Sudik, located in the Oklahoma City field. Last fortnight it started as a mammoth gasser flowing at the rate of 200,000,000 cubic feet a day. Slowly the gas turned to oil which shot skyward completely out of control, running at the rate of more than 2,000 barrels an hour. After long labor engineers succeeded in clamping a master gate valve on the well, only to see the connections ripped apart, tossed into the air. A second attempt, however, was successful. Mary...
...reported was a merger between Elertric Power & Light and United Gas. The gas system resulting from such a union would be one of the most potent in the U. S., reaching from the southwest as far east as Memphis, as far north as St. Louis, distributing 125 billion cubic feet of gas annually. Behind the merger would be Electric Bond & Share...
...should have a capacity of not less than one cubic foot, not more than two cubic feet...
Felix. On his oil field tour Secretary Wilbur saw for himself one of the defects of voluntary agreements. Just outside the Kettleman Hills "shut-in" is operating the Felix well of Petroleum Securities Co. (a Doheny concern), wasting 30 million cubic feet of gas per day. Vainly have the Kettleman operators tried to get the Felix well to reduce production. As Secretary Wilbur was traveling back to Washington, he read news of a terrific explosion at the Petroleum Securities brand-new plant for removing gasoline from "wet gas," a disaster which killed a foreman, destroyed a $500,000 plant...