Word: cued
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McMahon's Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd. will build a 670-mile, $120 million pipeline from the Peace River Basin to the U.S. border, sell Pacific 300 million cu. ft. of gas a day at 22? per thousand cu. ft., pipe an additional 50 million cu. ft. a day to Vancouver...
With water pushing through the turbines at the rate of 176,500 cu. ft. per second, the Rance Valley project will produce an annual 550 million kw-h of electricity-enough to supply the needs of a city about the size of Richmond, Va. Estimated completion date...
...Icebox Will Do. In preserving the blood's white cells (twice as big as the red, 7,000 to a cu. mm.), researchers could report no comparable success. But they had at least some good news: they have concentrated the substance (a protein) that stimulates white cells to devour invading bacteria and thus makes them the body's shock troops against infection. If an injection could whet the white cells' appetite, it would be a powerful reinforcement of the body's natural defenses...
More mysterious than the red or white cells are the blood's tiny platelets (one twenty-five-thousandths in. in diameter, 200,000 to the cu. mm.) Nobody knows quite how they work, but they are essential to blood clotting. When they are absent, as in certain types of leukemia the patient may die from internal bleeding through microscopic holes in the walls of blood vessels. Platelets, it was long feared, were too fragile ever to be preserved. But Dr. Tullis and his colleagues have found that by handling blood in nonwettable plastic vessels, and removing other clotting proteins...
...Petroli), with the job of selling off its assets. Mattei defied the orders, kept his equipment and put prospectors to work in Italy's big Po Valley. Soon, Mattei was boss of all A.G.I.P. His geologists found a big methane gas deposit with an initial production (1.5 billion cu. ft.) greater than all the rest of Italy's fields. By 1953, Mattei's wells were producing 71 billion cu. ft. of gas annually, saving Italy more than $32 million in coal and oil imports. This year production will hit 90 billion cu. ft., increase...