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Since 1836 Philadelphia's gasworks has often been a political football. The price of gas was reduced from $3.50 to $2.70 per i ,000 cu. ft. and its quality reduced to a point where it corroded stoves, when, in 1880 a reform movement ousted a city administration that was known as "the gas house gang." In 1897, however, when gas was down to $1, an era of peace set in with the granting of a 30-year lease on the gasworks to United Gas Improvement Co., first U. S. public utility holding company. In 1926 the city council...
...marksmanship. This year, therefore, in its frenzy of rearmament, Great Britain is again preparing a balloon apron to be used for its psychological effect. How impressive this apron will be was last week indicated more dramatically than by any speech in Parliament. During tests at Cardington, a 50,000-cu. ft. balloon broke away, and before snagging in a tree in Sudbury, drifted 60 miles trailing no less than 40,000 ft. of wire. The Air Ministry was much relieved to find that no damage had been done by this 72-mile-long steel whip, less pleased perhaps...
...Arno Carl Fieldner of the U. S. Bureau of Mines raised the old bugaboo about the imminent exhaustion of oil & gas. There was enough coal, he said, to last 2,100 years. But the known reserves of natural gas were 30 to 40 trillion cu. ft., of oil 13 billion barrels. At the present rate of consumption the petroleum would be gone in 13 years-but Dr. Fieldner predicted that discoveries of new pools and more efficient production techniques would stretch out the supply for a century. Unless "greater social control" was forthcoming, known supplies of gas would vanish...
...Vandergrift has had even better luck with gas wells than with oil. It is not unusual for a Vandergrifted gas formation to increase its yield by 1,000% to 7,000%. Few weeks ago a gas well in Boone County jumped after treatment from 800,000 cu. ft. daily to 3,600,000 cu. ft. Last month Vandergrift branched out into Ohio and Kentucky, did the biggest month's business since he started. Because he knows his trade from the ground down and is willing to go out on a case at any hour, in any season, over...
...problems put up squarely to engineering science was that of landslides at the east bulwark. Last year while the excavators were scooping earth from a large gulch that runs 175 ft. below the low water surface of the river, 200,000 cu. yd. of clay began to slide down at the rate of two feet an hour, faster than the power shovels could get it out. The contractors were faced with a delay of several weeks and an additional excavation cost of $200,000. The engineers decided to try an old trick invented in Prussia but never before used...