Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand at every four-or-more-alarm fire in the city to quarterback traffic control ("anything that obstructs traffic is our concern"). He installed an elaborate electronic control system, which enabled him to play the city's traffic lights like a color organ, speeding traffic flow in one direction or another to cope with rush-hour jams and special congestion, e.g., around the baseball stadium on game days...
...likelihood, Barnes will also get the city to sink a lot of money into an electronic-brain control system, which scans traffic flow by radar and switches street signals accordingly. Barnes likes well-marked lanes. When he wants one, he creates it right away with improvised dividers made out of used paint cans; markings and concrete follow later on. He is also a stickler for overhead traffic signals for every lane (and not just every street corner...
...Spare Parts." The U.N. also insisted that a regular flow of arms and supplies was moving north to Katanga from Northern Rhodesia, the British-backed territory run by Tshombe's white friend, Rhodesian Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky. Purpose: a new buildup of Katanga army units now making their headquarters at Kipushi, a mining town smack on the Katanga-Rhodesian frontier. Sir Roy denied all, and boarded a plane for a personal inspection on the Katanga frontier to make certain that no war contraband was getting through...
After the fire is out comes the tricky business of putting a cap on the escaping gas. With powerful winches pulling against the relentless pressure of the gas, Adair will force a 15-ton control head over the well. The head divides the gas flow like a garden sprinkler so that it can be controlled but not shut off. Meanwhile, slanting lateral wells will be drilled to the base of the mile-deep GT2, and through them specially compounded oil drillers' "mud''* will be forced into the main boring until enough weight builds up in the shaft...
...Meantime, a well has to be drilled 2,600 ft. down to water-bearing sands to provide the 40,000 gallons needed daily to shield the firemen and to dampen the area around GT2 in order to prevent sparks from relighting the fire before the gas flow is plugged. While these preliminaries are going on, Adair will continue to pop around the world taking care of other troublesome wells. But he will be back by Christmas, confidently plans to administer the coup de grace to the Gassi Touil fire in early January, and then submit to the oil companies...