Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between Columbia and Lexington on the Saluda River a lake to impound 100 billion cubic feet of water and generate 261,000 h.p. is abuilding by the new Lexington Power Co., subsidiary of General Gas & Electric Corp...
Most famed for its citrus fruits, Florida has other great growths. It ranks with the Carolinas as a lumber State, not far behind piney Georgia, whose output is more than a billion board-feet per annum. And, though few people know it, huge herds of beef cattle range the plains of Florida's northern interior. Many a Texas steer, like many a tired tycoon, goes to Florida...
...submarine shaped object is a tank for the study of the physiological effects of high and low pressures. It is of circular form, 35 feet long and eight in diameter, and is of half-inch welded steel. Pressures as high as 60 pounds per square inch and as low as those found at an altitude of 25,000 feet can be obtained, and gases of any desired mixture, humidity, and temperature can be fed in any desired amount to the pressure chambers, of which there are two, entered by means of a lock arrangement in the center of the tank...
...those who like to stamp with their feet on the earth and feel that they're here because they're here the theories of Professor Stetson relative to the effect of the rising and the setting of the moon upon the latitude of a place may come as disturbing news. They may feel the solid ground fall beneath their feet, and when they think they're Fifty North and Forty West they may be in quite another locality...
...movement, "1926," takes it up again and syncopates it. Then comes speed, prosperity. Man is the slave of machines. It is the age of materialism and there must come the inevitable collapse but the "America" ideal endures and the finale is an anthem for which audiences rose to their feet, joined in the singing...