Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deep...
...just now acquiring a festive look. Long blue and yellow streamers trail down out of the darkness from the jagged rocks overhead. Richard Aberle is patiently connecting up the streamers to make an electric circuit: yellow to yellow, blue to blue. They lead to detonator caps and charges buried deep in the rock by Aberle's partner, Jim Burns. As Aberle makes connections, Burns is busy installing more streamers. Most carefully, he places a single detonator cap on the end of a long air hose, shoves the hose into one of 800 holes, each one 9 ft. deep, that...
...Homestake contribution could be encompassed in a solid gold cube 12 ft. to a side, worth at present prices about $10 billion. But at Homestake, the road to El Dorado is mostly dark, deep, hot and dirty. The gold keeps getting harder to find and the tunnels and shafts grow deeper and longer. There are now 250 miles of underground cart tracks, and some shafts plunge so deep toward the earth's molten core that the temperature reaches 135° F. Expenses go on rising. It now costs $200 to extract each ounce of Homestake gold. That is high...
...paid only for the volume of rock they shake loose and ship out - plus an hourly bonus based on fluctuations in the price of gold. (In the past month the bonus has nearly doubled, from 310 to 570 an hour. The daily gold rate, chalked on dimly lit blackboards deep under the earth, is watched by miners as keenly as it is by the gnomes of Zurich...
...White House seem to have a deep compulsion to do everything a little more, better, grander than any of the others who have gone before them. Perhaps it is a natural urge, since getting to be President of the United States is about a 6 billion-to-1 shot at any given moment in the human scene. Having established that triumph, they look for other records to break...