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NADYM, a gas field discovered four years ago, contains 6 trillion cubic meters of gas, equivalent to three-quarters of U.S. reserves. A river port, rail spur and 600-mile gas line have been carved out of the desolate tundra, and by 1978 gas will be sent to West Europe. Three American companies are considering building a $7 billion pipeline 2,000 miles to Murmansk for shipment of liquefied gas to the U.S. East Coast...
Slip-ups came like ice on the steppes. The Italians estimated that 17 million cubic yards of earth would have to be moved for the plant's foundation; the final total was closer to 40 million. When construction stretched into the severe winter of 1968-69, work crews had to mount jet aircraft engines on trucks and focus the exhaust on the ground to thaw it, and on newly poured cement to keep it from cracking. In the spring, the construction site became a sea of mud. Hundreds of yards of dikes and runoff canals had to be built...
...first time in history, we know what form the Met's building will take forever. We can count every cubic foot of space we'll have. So now our policy is refinement rather than expansion. We're trying for zero population growth, weeding out and stabilizing the collection. Our criteria for de-accessioning are much stricter than our criteria for acquisition...
...concern. On Monday night an atmospheric inversion settled over the city. The sky turned reddish-brown, as clouds of ash, soot, and foundry dust produced by the city's factories were trapped beneath. By Tuesday, the pollution level had risen to 771 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter of air, nearly four times the level considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...result, civilian users, who formerly relied on federal supplies, have begun to buy on the private market. (Government agencies are required to buy from the Bureau of Mines and are forced to pay the federal price of $35 per thousand cubic feet.) Helium producers, making handsome profits, have refused to renegotiate their contracts. Thus the Government has been forced to continue buying helium in the same quantities as were needed when it was a monopoly seller, though it has fewer customers to sell it to. Result: it has acquired a massive oversupply of the gas. The stockpile rests...