Word: cuing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant and irrigation canals will cost some $400,000,000-$25.000,000 more than the Panama Canal. The rampart across the Columbia, which has ten times the annual run-off of the Colorado, will be 4,300 ft. long, 500 ft. high. It will swallow up 9,500,000 cu. yd. of concrete, three times the quantity required for Boulder; produce 2,520,000 electric horsepower compared with 750,000 of Russia's vaunted Dnieper. In the new dry and barren Columbia basin, Grand Coulee will irrigate and electrify 30,000 forty-acre farms capable of supporting...
...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...
...cubic inch of dry ice makes 450 cu. in. of gaseous carbon dioxide if the gas is free to expand at atmospheric pressure...
...report of Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. Admiral Cook made, without change, the recommendations made last spring by his predecessor, Rear Admiral Ernest J. King: for the U. S. to begin immediately the construction of a metal-hulled airship of 1,500,000 cu. ft. capacity, a larger airship of 2,500,000 cu. ft., a still larger one comparable to the German Hindenburg, which has a capacity of 7,000,000 cu...
...prow, an under water lamp hanging overside, all served by electric storage battery, were to supply light for close inspection of the tunnel walls. All electrical connections were shielded against sparking in the presence of sewer gas whose explosive power, Mr. Brown told reporters, was such that 36 cu. ft. of it was equal to one ton of dynamite. Last week Mr. Brown made a preliminary test of his equipment. He put on woolen basketball socks, sneakers, short hockey pants. He ate a huge breakfast of hot cakes and bacon. Then he got into a rubberized suit, hung...