Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nuclear blasting. Engineers have long considered a connecting tunnel or canal between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. The water would drop 1,800 ft. below sea level from the Mediterranean, creating tremendous hydroelectric power, and the Dead Sea would obligingly evaporate it to keep the current running. While the U.S. is not yet formally prepared to furnish nuclear explosives, the Atomic Energy Commission has already tested them in an underground blast, might well lend help and supplies if asked. ¶ Desalting water. The U.S. Department of the Interior, eying a 597 billion-gal, daily consumption...
...piece of equipment: a massive, steel low-pressure chamber. Dr. Balke wanted to know whether his conditioned volunteers would be as subject to the bends and the chokes (painful, potentially fatal disorders caused by nitrogen bubbling out of solution in the blood) as a man zooming up from sea level...
With the oxygen circuit closed, and their metabolism rising with exertion, they sent the CO2 level soaring at a rate of 1% a minute (normal at sea level: about one-thirtieth of 1%). In ten minutes, the C02 level was nudging 12%. This .was about the limit. But Dr. Balke found that his conditioned subjects kept full consciousness longer than lowlanders. Also, they sensed more quickly (thanks to training) the reflexes that indicate the onset of CO2 giddiness. So they would have more time to do something about it. Aside from advantages in regard to the bends...
...postwar upturn, is picking up speed. Items:¶ Industrial production for July stood at 133 on the Federal Reserve's index, up three points since June and seven points higher than the recession low of 126 in April (see chart). At this rate, say economists, the pre-recession level of 145 in August 1957 may well be topped before year...
...Personal income rose to an annual rate of $354.5 billion in July, highest in history. The new level was $2.5 billion higher than in June and $2.4 billion higher than the previous record of $352.1 billion, also set in August 1957. Main reasons for the jump: a $1 billion rise in private-industry payrolls, plus another $1 billion increase in the federal payroll. ¶ Housing starts rose to an annual rate of almost 1,160,000 in July, 14% higher than the rate in July 1957 and the highest in 2½ years. FHA, VA and conventionally financed housing...