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When the setting sun tints the snowy slope of Popocatepetl, the 17,887-ft. volcano seems to float majestically beside its twin peak Ixtacihuatl, in the thin air over Mexico City. To tourists looking out from their hotel windows, the rosy mountain is enchanting. But to the primitive Indians living in the village of Amecameca at the volcano's base, it is frightening. Centuries ago their ancestors cast human sacrifices into the crater's fiery maw. Today Popocatepetl sleeps, but the Indians of Amecameca are sure that it is still hungry and jealous of its rights...
Surely the newest version of this ancient creature will never be a plaything. It took 32 men to lift the pine, oak, and plywood frame from its saw-horses in the boathouse down to the float, and lots of ingenuity to float...
...sorrow of most oarsmen, the barge has sprung is weak in the joints, and has to be scrapped. At least it will not float on the river any more. It may go to Dartmouth, however, two carpenters, "Scotty" and Arthur, worked five weeks building a stronger, lighter, and more-casily handled boat. It was launched three days ago but won't be used until next fall, for it has no riggers and the outdoor training season will be over in two weeks...
...above picture two Leviathan crews are submerging the float at Newell Boathouse in order to launch the new barge...
...operation is successful, oil manufactured at Bayway during the summer will be pumped into the quarry, where it will float on the water, be covered with 250 three-ton floating steel pontoons. In winter the oil will be piped back for distribution to homes. Esso owns or has options on nine other quarries in the area capable of holding 8,000,000 bbls., enough to heat 225,000 homes for a year...