Word: gals
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...state's Clean Streams Act, and one was sent to prison. The three and their company were fined $750,000. EPA supervised the cleanup of the river pollution, and in 1982 it took the site off its priority list. But heavy rains from Hurricane Gloria sent 100,000 gal. of oily, smelly chemical wastes rushing back up to the surface of this presumably cleaned-up site and into the Susquehanna. "There was an extremely strong odor that would burn your nostrils," said City Clerk Paul McGarry, who went to investigate after residents began phoning with complaints. "It looked like liquid...
...Working with EPA, the company in 1982 agreed to spend $38.5 million to clean up the area. At the golf course, all soil was removed to a depth of 3 ft. below any signs of contamination. That involved hauling 68,204 cu. yds. of dirt away. Fully l.25 million gal. of contaminated groundwater were pumped into a 3,400-ft. well lined with two cement walls. EPA considers the golf course cleaned up, as indeed it seems to be. In one sense, however, the problem was merely transported across the river. All that soil has been deposited on the plant...
...kind of archaeologist of the present. In one window, the paper Santa Claus dates the cataclysm that drove everyone away: just before Christmas 1982, the people of Times Beach discovered that their town had been drenched in dioxin, a poison so potent that one drop in 10,000 gal. is considered a dangerous concentration. Under political pressure, the EPA agreed to pay off all property owners; homeowners got between $8,800 and $98,900 apiece. And the town died. On one street remains an ex-resident's bright white graffito: GOODBYE TIMES BITCH...
Industry experts see some positive signs for airlines. One is the drop in oil prices, which has cut the cost of jet fuel by 20% since 1981, to about 81 cents per gal. Another is the increased business that low fares have generated. U.S. carriers reported a healthy 15% gain in traffic during the first quarter of this year vs. the same period a year ago. Those increases have given at least a temporary respite to ailing firms. Republic, after losing $222 million between 1980 and 1983, posted a profit of $29.5 million...
...getting a little too serious for Dyson. "I have seen people engaged in heavy discussions on television about the new taste. People have to loosen up a bit." And it is all happening, quite by design, just when the summer season is about to begin and roughly 2 billion gal. of cola will be sipped, chugged or spilled. Dyson is convinced that his company has done the right thing at a time when Americans are "predisposed to change." Says he: "When the dust settles, we will be successful, and, well, I'm sorry, Coke is better." American consumers, of course...