Word: cued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...using 20 bulldozers, five road graders, three cranes and five shovels. The star performer is clearly "Sarah," a West German-built excavator that was named after a Sudanese official's daughter. By the time the Jonglei Canal is finished, the bucket wheeler will have moved 3.5 billion cu. ft. of earth, enough to fill the Great Pyramid more than 38 times. Getting the eight-story-high, 2,300-ton excavator and its 1 million spare parts to Sudan, the largest nation in Africa and independent since 1956, was a challenging task. The machine had been in Pakistan, where...
...construction stretches for almost five miles across the 2,050-mile-long Paraná River, which divides Brazil and Paraguay. Its central concrete span alone stretches 4,059 ft., more than three-quarters of the entire length of the largest U.S. dam, the Grand Coulee. More than 15.6 million cu. yds. of cement went into the construction, enough to build eight medium-size Brazilian cities. The dam's 18 turbines, weighing 300 tons apiece, are so large that the Symphony Orchestra of Brazil once managed to stage a performance inside one of them as it traveled...
...House. They were there to hear bids announced for federal lease sales in the Beaufort Sea, which perhaps contains some of the richest untapped deposits of oil and gas in the U.S. The fields are believed to hold as much as 2.3 billion bbl. of oil and 1.8 trillion cu. ft. of natural...
...natural gas is siphoned off through a 6-in.-wide pipe that runs along the ocean bottom to shore. The oil will be stored in tanks within the pyramids and periodically emptied by ships. The project is expected to yield 50 bbl. of oil and 600,000 cu. ft. of gas a day, which will not be enough to offset the $8 million investment made by ARCO and its partners, Mobil and Aminoil USA, Inc. The capping operation, however, will produce other benefits...
...high plains of Montana to the fertile corn belt in eastern Iowa, workmen by the thousands have completed another and bigger project, the Northern Border Pipeline. The line reaches 823 miles from the Canadian border at Alberta to the Midwestern U.S., and by November will be transporting 975 million cu. ft. of fuel per day, or enough to heat 1.4 million homes in the dead of winter. Construction of the $1.1 billion system began in the spring of 1981, and has required on occasion as many as 5,000 hardhats and other workers, laboring at nine different sites along...