Word: cued
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this crisis last week Washington flashed an emergency answer. The signalers: the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 1930, after a hot legal battle between Illinois and other major Great Lakes areas, had limited the amount of water Chicago could divert from Lake Michigan for canal use to 1,500 cu. ft. a second. Reason for the limitation: by diverting larger amounts in the past (claimed the Great Lakes group), Chicago had reduced the lakes' water level to a point harmful to lake shipping. The court's new decree, answering an Illinois petition backed by seven other Mississippi Valley...
...parlayed an idea in six or seven years into millions." So said Dallas Geologist John A. Jackson last week as the biggest uncommitted natural-gas field in the U.S. was opened up by the Federal Power Commission. FPC approved the sale of 105 million cu. ft. of gas daily in the Wise County area of northern Texas to the Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, one of the biggest U.S. gas distributors. To get the gas from Wise County to its own main line Fritch, Texas, Natural Gas will spend $32.1 million to build a 350-mile pipeline...
Jackson teamed up with Ellison Mills, a Dallas drilling contractor, got $60,000 from Wise County landowners willing to take a chance. The first well came in with an estimated reserve of more than 5 billion cu. ft. of gas, worth about $500,000. But since the drillers had no customer for the gas, banks refused to lend money to drill the other two wells. Lone Star Gas, which also had gas wells in Wise County, offered to buy the well for a mere $15,000, which Jackson refused. Discouraged, he went back to his consulting work as a geologist...
Next November, Pacific Northwest will also become an international pipeline. Hooking into Canada's half-completed $90 million Westcoast Transmission Co. line at Sumas, Wash., the Scenic Inch will draw 300 million cu. ft. of gas daily into the U.S. from the Alberta-British Columbia Peace River field. Thus assured of virtually limitless supplies at either end of the line, the $363 million in lines in 1957 will deliver more thermal energy than all the Northwest's hydroelectric dams, and at less cost than gas in New York. Ultimately, says Fish, the line may carry 2 billion cu...
...Like Whisky." The big pipe, now delivering more than 100 million cu. ft. of gas a day, has already lighted a flame under the Northwest's economy. Utility companies have spent $20 million to convert to natural gas, and will lay out another $100 million by 1961. Consumers are expected to buy $100 million worth of new gas appliances. Washington Natural Gas Co. estimates its revenues will double...