Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a twist of a pipeline valve outside Seattle one day last week, Seattle's Mayor Gordon Clinton and Mayor George Culmbach of Everett, Wash, linked their cities' kitchens to natural-gas wells on the Colorado-New Mexico border 1,488 miles away. For the Northwest cities that received natural gas for the first time this month, the 18-m.p.h. surge of fuel from the San Juan Basin was as momentous as the first whirring of dynamos at Grand Coulee Dam in 1941. Long hobbled by power shortages, the Northwest in another year will be tapping...
...Northwest, last major region in the U.S. to be reached by pipeline, has been waiting six years to 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...
...over the past 15 months blasted and burrowed at the rate of 170 miles a month, 55 miles faster than the pace set by Fish when he built the 1,837-mile Texas-New York Transcontinental line in 1951. Crews worked in 35° below weather last winter, the Northwest's coldest in 50 years. With 2,500 miles of mainline and feeder pipe, Fish's Pacific Northwest is the world's biggest gas 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...
...Like Whisky." The big pipe, now delivering more than 100 million cu. ft. of gas a day, has already lighted a flame under the Northwest's economy. Utility companies have spent $20 million to convert to natural gas, and will lay out another $100 million by 1961. Consumers are expected to buy $100 million worth of new gas appliances. Washington Natural Gas Co. estimates its revenues will double...