Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Half-Inch Accuracy. Surveyor's virtuoso performance was still to come. Noticing a clod of soil dug out of one of its trenches, the craft closed its claw on the clump, biting off about two cubic inches of soil. Carefully clutching its prize, Surveyor maneuvered it into position and then dropped it on one of its footpads, much like a child dropping a handful of sand on its shoe...
...Japanese, then back away. Last week 28 Russian economists and technicians went to Tokyo and sounded as if they actually meant business. Mikhail Nesterov, president of the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and head of the delegation, said, "Western Siberia has reserves of 40 billion tons of oil, 42 billion cubic meters of lumber, vast amounts of iron ore, coal and nonferrous metals, all waiting to be tapped." He invited the Japanese to suggest methods of tapping them all and sharing the wealth...
...examined thus far, and none had received a dangerous dose. What is more, added the board, "there is not the slightest risk in eating meat, fish, vegetables from the zone, or of drinking milk from there." Just to be on the safe side, the U.S. dug up 1,500 cubic yards of contaminated topsoil and tomato plants and made plans to ship them back to a radioactive-waste dump in Aiken, S.C., for diplomatic burial...
Constant Resource. Back of all such experiments is the inexorable fact that the supply of water is limited. The earth has exactly as much water now as it ever had: no less, but no more. Unlike any other resource, the 326 million cubic miles of water are not used up. In nature's familiar, never-ending cycle, water falls to earth as precipitation, seeps underground, flows into lakes and streams, and rushes toward the oceans. Sooner or later, it evaporates back into the air or is given up by plants in the process of transpiration. An acre of corn...
...Verband to build 102 purification plants since 1948, and encourage members to clean up their own wastes. The Ruhr's steel industry has installed water-circulation systems in its plants to use the same water over and over again. As a result, the plants now draw only 2.6 cubic yards of water for the production of one ton of steel, compared with the 130 cubic yards they used in the past...