Word: depth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the roads were not just counting their money, they were spending it on much needed improvements in equipment and right of way. Union Pacific cracked out an order for 25 new locomotives. New York Central, headed for receivership in the depth of Depression, was about to cut its interest charges by refunding old bonds. And Pennsylvania announced that it would start immediately on electrification of 85 mi. of four-track main line west to Harrisburg, Pa. Various yard, branch and freight lines will be electrified at the same time, bringing the cost of the whole project to about...
...Then it was telescoped to 17 in., then to 12 3/8 in. At the 10,000-ft. mark it was down to 7! in. Meantime Texas Corp.'s Rigolette No. 5 in the Lafitte field in Louisiana was brought in last month at 10.244 ft., setting a new depth record for a producing oil well. At McGonigle No. 12 the bit, now down to 4! in., ground around & around until it was down to 10,569 ft., just nine feet over two miles. Then the oil flowed, bringing back to Tide Water the title it has held six times...
...over-looking due to the world's apparent disregard for it. Here the superficialities of life must be recognized; the real rewards go to the innovators for their vision and originality. There is little but the ego of man which is increased by knowledge "of wide surface and small depth", or as President Conant expressed it, "Few of the values which feed the human soul can be found by studying mere information...
...been the subject of most of the experiments. The plan of the experiments has been to inject the gas into the room in which the subject was seated and then to apply a number of driving tests which have been worked out by DeSilva. These tests include brake reaction, depth perception, the ability to see dim objects at the side of a bright light, the ability to perceive the approach or recession of objects, and accuracy of steering...
...sank a shaft to a depth of approximately 40 feet, and with the aid of a small two-cylindered gasoline engine, an iron triped rising about 15 feet from the ground, and a crude pulley, they succeeded in obtaining small samples of dirt...