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Most clouds and fogs are made of water droplets that are too small to fall. Nature has various methods of making the droplets grow big enough to fall as rain, but they are not always in operation. Often great clouds heavy with water float across a thirsty land without dropping rain, or fog hangs for hours over an airport...
...even as rafts float down a river...
...design may be strange. Since only the crew and controls need protection from pressure, all the power and ordnance equipment of such a sub could ride "outside" them in an outer hull filled with oil. Like the thin steel of the bathyscaphe's gasoline float, which feels no appreciable pressure, the sub's outer hull need not be thick and pressurized. It could be made of lightweight aluminum or lithium for greater speed...
...world within the world where living men had never been. Already Trieste has descended almost three miles, or 20 times deeper than conventional submarines. It can do this without danger to itself or passengers because it operates under water like a blimp. Its 50-ft. hull is a float carrying 28,000 gallons of gasoline, which is 30% lighter than sea water and compressible. The float does the job of a balloon's gas-filled bag, while the passenger ball hangs below. Water enters the float, equalizes the inside and outside pressure, and compresses the gasoline, reducing the craft...
Wall Street glumly estimated a float of $100 million to $150 million worth of unsold high-grade bonds in dealers' hands, with another $500 million worth of new bonds scheduled for offering within the next three weeks. The market was so saturated that Standard Oil of California decided to withdraw a planned $150 million offering because the underwriters' suggested price was too high. A $20 million issue by Pacific Power & Light Co. was tough to sell even with a yield of 4.35%. Moreover, when two syndicates that had been supporting the AA-rated issues of Illinois Power...