Word: magma
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...night last week, the giant awoke with a roar. Rock and mud, steam and magma belched from its 44-mile-deep core. Two villages vanished under a newly created lagoon nearly a mile long. Orange lava licked its way down the southern slopes of Taal, on top of roof-deep...
Died. Margaret Schulze Downey, 42, one of the nation's richest women, heiress to an estimated $150 million concentrated mainly in Newmont Mining Co. and Magma Copper Co. (founded by Grandfather William Boyce Thompson), a pretty brunette who briefly filled the gossip columns in the late '40s when her divorce from polo-playing Polish Prince Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen prompted him to shoot himself (he recovered), settled down to marry Morton Downey, radio's dulcet-toned troubadour of the '30s, and take an active director's role in minding her business; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Shakespeare did not write excerpts; he wrote plays. This is the start of the trouble with the program for two players, "Shakespeare Revisited," which has just joined the repertory at Stratford. In this magma, Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans are offering snippets from eighteen plays in the course of two hours, believe it or not, with condescending and insulting commentaries tossed in along...
...Federal Reserve Board's industrial production index did. Some 100,000 workers were laid off in mines and railroads, and carloadings dropped to 532,304 cars, lowest for a comparable week in years. Last week the Steelworkers Union and others called a strike at Kennecott Copper Corp. and Magma Copper Co. that idled another 15,000 workers. As a result, industrial output declined 1% in July to 153% of the 1947-49 average, two points below the record June level of 155%. But activity in most other durable-goods industries increased, and output of nondurable goods reached new highs...
Part of the water in the steam, says McCabe, is "juvenile water" which comes out of the magma or the rock around it. The rest is rain water that seeps into the ground and turns to steam when it reaches hot rock. The steam contains less than 1% of noncondensable gases, mostly carbon dioxide, and no corrosive minerals. For the time being, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will be content with a 12,500-kw. generator, but much more steam may be available. Wells drilled 30 years ago and abandoned as uneconomic have been spouting steam ever since with no loss...