Word: inched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cook with gas. After a two-year search for reserves to supply the region, Houston Pipeline Builder Ray Fish battled the Federal Power Commission for two more years (TIME, June 28, 1954) to win permission for his $230 million Pacific Northwest line. Once started, Fish's Scenic Inch raced faster, farther, through more rugged terrain than any other U.S. pipeline...
Next November, Pacific Northwest will also become an international pipeline. Hooking into Canada's half-completed $90 million Westcoast Transmission Co. line at Sumas, Wash., the Scenic Inch will draw 300 million cu. ft. of gas daily into the U.S. from the Alberta-British Columbia Peace River field. Thus assured of virtually limitless supplies at either end of the line, the $363 million in lines in 1957 will deliver more thermal energy than all the Northwest's hydroelectric dams, and at less cost than gas in New York. Ultimately, says Fish, the line may carry 2 billion...
...Campbell--whom Batteau claims has "more ideas per cubic inch than any man I've ever known"--says, "the necessity for philosophic speculation is not being met in out society. The old tools of thought are wearing thin, and new ones have to be developed. Old thoughts are beginning to yield diminishing returns. The job of the speculator is to develop these new tools of thought, so vital to progress...
...five foot, six inch, 150-lb back co-captained an undefeated Ipswich High School team three years ago. He has played both fullback and halfback this year...
When Boatswain Wookey was lowered into the water, he was breathing ordinary air, but when he reached 40 ft., the pump began supplying a mixture of oxygen (8.5 parts) and helium (91.5 parts). Going down was comparatively easy. In spite of the 273 Ibs. of pressure on every square inch of his body (39,312 Ibs. per sq. ft.), he felt fine. "I felt no more effect from the helium," he says, "than I would from nitrogen at shallow depth. My mind was clear. I did the job I was sent down to do." His token job, to prove that...