Word: hydros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University will lose slightly more than 200 acres of its Black Rock Forest, if the Consolidated Edison Company goes through with its plans to build a hydro-electric power project in Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., just north of West Point...
...their most ambitious project, the British Rothschilds put together a consortium to tap the timber, minerals and hydro power of a 53,000-sq.-mi. area in Newfoundland. Next spring the British Newfoundland Corp., with both the British and the French Rothschilds represented, will begin a $1 billion, seven-year job to dam Hamilton Falls and harness its 6,000,000 h.p. It will be the world's biggest hydroelectric development, and Sir Winston Churchill has called the whole project "a grand imperial concept...
Their most ambitious entry is British Motor Corp.'s new four-door Morris 1100, which is about a foot shorter than a Volkswagen. To smooth the ride on Europe's cambered roads, the Morris introduces a novel suspension system called "Hydro-lastic Suspension," after its two key components, rubber and water...
Broad and muscular (5 ft. 8½ in., 175 Ibs.), Muncey started racing outboard motorboats at 14, first drove a limited hydroplane in 1947, when he broke in on smaller boats with 65 m.p.h. top speed. Eight years later, Designer Ted Jones, whose Slo-Mo-Shun IV revolutionized hydro design in 1950, gave Muncey his first crack at the really big boats by picking him to drive the first of Owner Rhodes's Miss Thriftway hydros. Muncey barely missed winning the Gold Cup his first time out, then came on to win in both...
Poland is quite another story, for it is arty, cosmopolitan, and thoroughly sophisticated. Its covers are not the green-tinged maidens of China or the hydro-electric plants of USSR, but attractive paintings reminiscent sometimes of the New Yorker, other times of Realities. Best of all, there are no overt attempts at pushing a bill of goods. What propaganda Poland contains is simply the uniformly excellent quality of its contents. As the editor writes in his preface to one issue...