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...vast new source of natural gas for U.S. homes and industry was unlocked last week. Satisfied that Canada is endowed with gas reserves well beyond its own needs for at least the next quarter-century, Ottawa approved gas exports to the U.S. of 7.3 trillion cubic feet, an amount that could fuel New York City at present rates for 80 years. The Alberta oil and gas industry, with $200 million tied up in 1,000 capped gas wells, let out a jubilant whoop. Well it might: Canada's new National Energy Board estimated that exports under the four approved...
That is Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd.'s plan to pipe 204 million cubic feet daily to the U.S.'s Midwestern Gas Transmission Co. (TIME, April 4). The biggest project is Alberta & Southern...
...plan to lay down a 1,400-mile pipeline to carry 458.7 million cubic feet daily to its California parent, the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Under the two other licenses, Canadian gas would flow to markets in Montana and the Northwest...
...speck of germanium to do the work of the vacuum tube, but most of the rest of the circuitry was still needed. Last week Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed an entire milliwatt amplifier, circuitry and all, contained in a single block of germanium hardly bigger (one-thousandth of a cubic inch) than the head of a pin. A 5-watt amplifier is about the size of a dime...
...Palace. From then on, it was merely a matter of the routine haggling that each side expected of the other. Nasser stepped in personally to raise Egypt's compensation offer to $43 million, and the Sudanese were happy to accept after getting a greatly increased share (18.5 billion cubic meters v. 4 billion in the 1929 pact) of the increased water supply to be accumulated when Egypt's Aswan High Dam holds back the vast amount of wasted water that normally goes down into the Mediterranean every year. The successful talks were capped with a tidy $31 million...