Word: interiorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Persuaded friendly Interior Secretary Fred Seaton to shut down oil production on their 275 wells-thereby depriving oil companies (and themselves) of hundreds of thousands of dollars-so as to force the companies to rush completion of equipment that will salvage precious gas, which was being flared off for lack of transmission facilities...
Today Behlen's frameless buildings are used for everything from grain elevators to supermarkets and churches. The buildings can be raised by 20-man crews in two or three days. A Behlen supermarket including interior costs $7 per sq. ft., about half the cost of a conventional structure. With his bigger plant, Behlen expects to boost his gross from about $16 million this year to $25 million in 1959. But he deprecates his inventive skill, feels he only applied old principles to new uses. Says he: "Any engineer can design a complicated gadget that can't be produced...
...must specify whether he wants it dry, extra dry or desiccated ; with lemon peel, olive or onion; straight or on the rocks; with domestic or foreign gin (high or low proof) or vodka, etc. Ford, which started with a single model car, now offers millions of combinations of color, interior fabric, power, styling and accessories in its autos, could theoretically run at full production for a year and never produce two identical cars. Westinghouse Electric turns out 63 "basic" models of appliances that can be modified 342 ways. Radio Corp. of America has 316 cabinet styles and models in radios...
...committee and its attitude of injured righteousness, the facts of the situation point in a somewhat different direction. The first Unofficial Guide appeared September, 1952. The Harvard Handbook of 1952 contains nothing in common with this Guide. However, the 1953 Handbook contains verbatim the "Foreword" and about ten interior pages, including articles an "The Boston Area," "How to Meet Women," and "Finding Your Way" from the 1952 Guide. The (then) responsible Handbook committee printed an acknowledgment: "To the Graduate Student Council ... we give our warmest appreciation." Future Handbooks continued to use freely material from the successive Unofficial Guides, reprinting...
...keeps its shape at a brightly glowing 1,350° F., when aluminum and ordinary steel have long since softened. Liquid nitrogen, which will not support combustion, is used as a coolant for both pilot and equipment, and is also vaporized to maintain pressure in the plane's interior. The pilot, who cannot breathe pure nitrogen, will have a private oxygen atmosphere inside his space suit...