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...Congress and the AEC approve, scientists will drill a 20-in. shaft 1,200 ft. down into the ore deposit. They will then lower a 20-kiloton device to the bottom, plug the shaft, and set off a nuclear blast. From experience with previous tests, the AEC knows that the explosion will create tremendous pressures that will literally push the rock away from the blast center, fracturing it in all directions. The result will be a cavity about 200 ft. in diameter; the surface of the earth will quake, but the AEC does not expect any radioactive debris...
...district's difficulties yield to the dramatic plan approach so easily. Even the most efficient treatment plant faces the problem of "sludge disposal"--what to do with the stuff that is taken out of sewage being treated. The conventional approach has been to deposit the good in what are euphemistically called "sanitary lagoons,"but these are understandably unpopular with the lucky ones who live nearby...
...Tenants Pay Deposit...
...trying to hold them up," Cutler said. He noted that the deposit requirement was printed on the lease and that those potential tenants who did not wish to pay it did not have to move into the building...
...Depression's bank holiday, a Chicago banker and businessman who in March 1933 took charge of screening 17,000 banks shut down by presidential order, within a week reopened 12,000 of them, eventually either closed or merged 5,000 others, meanwhile organizing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to rebuild public confidence in the nation's banking system; of arteriosclerosis; in Chicago...