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...Algiers has been illuminated night and day by a billowing, 450-ft. torch of flame. Visible for 90 miles and roaring like a dozen jetliners at takeoff, the fire is consuming the riches of the recently discovered Gassi Touil natural-gas field at the staggering rate of 30 million cu. ft. a day-enough gas to meet the average daily requirements of Tucson, Ariz...
...engineers who developed the Hovercraft (TIME, June 22, 1959), an amphibian that floats above land or water on a cushion of air. Eventually, they devised a "bed" with twelve 6-in. jets arranged four to a side, with two at each end, and through them they pumped 2,000 cu. ft. of air a minute. The inward-facing jets created their own curtained cushion from which the air escaped at a smooth, continuous rate, equal to the input rate...
...seven trial runs, a Conch-designed methane tanker successfully hauled liquid gas from a plant at Lake Charles, La., to London, where it was pumped into special storage tanks and fed as a gas into the city mains. The British were delighted-they pay about $1.60 per 1,000 cu. ft. for homemade coal gas v. an estimated 90?for liquid methane. Last week, over bitter opposition from the British coal industry, Sir Henry Jones, chairman of the British Gas Council, which operates Britain's nationalized gas industry, won government permission to spend $50.6 million on facilities to handle...
...Zealand, the Kapuni strike was made by a consortium of Royal Dutch/Shell, British Petroleum and New Zealand's Todd Oil Services Ltd. Though unofficial estimates run higher, the consortium itself conservatively places the productive capacity of the Kapuni field at 100 million cu. ft. a day-or enough to generate 40 times as much electricity as is used by New Zealand's largest city, Auckland...
...program that it is impossible to hide the sites from public view; the Air Force, which is in charge of the operation, is therefore depending for security on dispersal and the massive impregnability of the installations themselves. In all, some 20,000 workmen are digging out about 37.5 million cu. yds. of earth, replacing it with 1,600,000 tons of steel, 2,700,000 tons of concrete, and hundreds of miles of electrical ganglia. In Montana alone, 150 Minuteman silos will be dispersed over a 20,000-sq.-mi area, nearly twice the size of Maryland. They have been...