Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they scramble to a steel escape ladder that climbs straight up, 110 ft., through a hole bored in solid schist. Shifting from that ladder to a creaky elevator cage, they hoist themselves higher still. Beside the cage as it moves upward-to a mere 5,600 ft. below the earth's surface-water streams down the timbers used to shore up the shaft, acting as both lubricant and fire preventive. In the hot shaft it sounds, and feels, like a tropical rain forest. Shiny with sweat, Burns and Aberle leave the cage and head down another tunnel toward their...
...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, but at current prices it leaves plenty of room for profit...
...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...
...there is no treaty, radio astronomers could see their skies filled with all sorts of miscellaneous radio noise," Burke said. New fields such as satellite study of the earth's climate could be crowded off the spectrum by an uncontrolled frequency "free-for-all" if no treaty were reached
...research team from the Institute for Conservation Archeology of the Peabody Museum will probably conclude excavation at the site of a seventeenth-century Harvard dormitory by removing four or five narrow columns of earth from an abandoned well next to the building, Michael E. Roberts, director of the institute, said yesterday...