Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward naked Montauk Point, the 190-ft. Mackay Radio tower at Napeague was flung to earth. Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders. Refugees huddled marooned in the brick-walled Montauk Manor on high ground. On Long Island's northerly finger the hurricane from the south made shambles of the shipyards of Greenport, unroofed a full movie theatre...
Raging up Narragansett Bay, wind and water struck Providence, short circuiting all power. A 300,000 cu.-ft. gas tank exploded. Short-circuited auto horns set up a doleful din. Towns up Buzzard's Bay and along the Cape Cod Canal were devastated. A steeple in East Bridgewater fell point first through the roof of its own church. At Northfield Seminary a falling chimney killed two girls, injured 20. "Old Ironsides," torn from her moorings in Boston Navy Yard, was badly battered...
Last week, to the sober tolling of a deep-toned bell, officials of the New York World's Fair and of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. stuffed 50 ft...
...pipelines fan out over the U. S. from the nation's three chief natural gas fields: 1) in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky; 2) Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana; 3) Southern California. Last year these capillaries of modern commerce carried so much gas (1,336,863,000,000 cu. ft.) that Congress passed the Natural Gas Act giving the Federal Power Commission authority over interstate pipelines similar to what it already had over interstate transmission of electricity. Last week FPC received from Kansas Pipe Line & Gas Co. the first application for a new line since the act was passed...
...permission to construct a $21,470,000 line (financed by a $20,000,000 RFC loan) from the Hugoton fields in southwestern Kansas through unexploited territory across Nebraska and the Dakotas into northwestern Minnesota. If permission is granted,* the company expects to sell 13,623,080,000 cu. ft. for $3,024,447 in the first year of operation, 20,165,390,000 for $5,469,847 in the fifth. The line would total 2,346 miles, serve 129 communities with combined population of 370,000, none of which is now supplied with natural...