Word: cued
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graduated reduction of water diverted from the present rate of 8,500 to 1,500 cu. ft. per sec. in nine years...
Lastly the Queen spoke with emotion, nay indignation, of Curacao-not the liqueur but the island where it was invented, one of Her Majesty's islands in the Caribbean. Recalling that Curacao is but 40 miles from the coast of Venezuela and that the Governor General of Cu-null was kidnapped by Venezuelan filibusterers last spring and subjected to indignities before being released (TIME, June 24), Queen Wilhelmina said with resolute wrath: "It is the purpose of my government to increase the number of our armed forces in Curacao!" At present the garrison of Willemstad, the Capital, consists...
...natural gases, from another 7.07%. This is unusual richness. The Government well at Amarillo, Tex., yields but 1.7%, the Helium Co.'s well at Dexter, Kan., 2.4%. A result is that the price of helium gas may be reduced from $35 to about $12 per 1,000 cu...
...dirigibles, announced last week the discovery of a new helium deposit, the situation of which was not made public. Helium, which is almost as light as hydrogen, has the great advantage of being non-inflammable. But, rare, it is expensive (about $35 per 1,000 cu. ft.). It is found mixed with natural gas. Hitherto there have been but two chief U. S. helium sources: 1) the Federal well at Amarillo, Tex.,? which yields 1.75% of helium; 2) Helium Co.'s well at Dexter, Kan., which yields 2.4% of helium...
...shares in the day's trading. Arkansas Natural Gas is a subsidiary of Cities Service Co.-unique Henry L. Doherty being president of both companies. A. N. G. supplies Little Rock, Ark., with gas; owns some 635 miles of gas mains and transports some 35 billion cu. ft. of gas per year. In addition to its 16,000 acres of proven gas leases, however, it also controls 33,000 acres of proven oil leases, and almost 300,000 acres of undeveloped gas and oil lands. Its securities have been somewhat in the "dollar a dozen" class, the half-million...