Word: pump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardly a drop escapes the notice of the country's watchers. When the seas begin to seep into fresh-water wells near Tel Aviv, engineers pump fresh water into rock cavities between the wells and the sea, building up a barrier against seawater intrusion. Since agriculture is Israel's heaviest user of water, Israeli scientists are systematically searching for the answer to a question that has plagued farmers throughout history: How much water does each crop actually need? Using radioactive tracer materials, American-born Soil Physicist Daniel Hillel is keeping track of irrigation water as it enters...
Industry's Return. Cavanagh showed equal vigor and imagination in tackling Detroit's other problems, which were legion. To pump revenues into the nearly bankrupt city treasury, he introduced a 1% income tax that adds $42 million annually to city revenues. With added funds generated by the current auto boom, Cavanagh has wiped out the $34.5 million deficit he inherited, put the city budget in the black, cut property taxes, and halved a tax on industrial machinery...
...computer punch cards, can chop up huge chunks of meat., frozen or fresh, to supply 1,000 Ibs. of meat paste every four minutes. Still others turn out smoked ham and bacon in twelve to 24 hours (v. 56 hours in the ordinary process) by electronic controls, automatically pump salt cure into ham, package bacon at the speed of 60 units a minute and stuff sausages in a new high-protein edible casing...
Ever since the days of the Roman Empire, Europe has depended heavily on inland waterways as vital arteries for its economic lifeblood. West Germany's arteries pump the hardest. Along the country's 2,789 miles of navigable rivers and canals last year flowed 184 million tons of goods and raw materials, 27% of the country's total freight traffic. Germany's 7,600 barges carry more total tonnage than those of any other European country (though the neighboring Netherlands transports 66% of its internal commerce by water). This week in Hannover, Federal Transport Minister Hans...
...mist containing a wetting and detergent agent, N-acetylcysteine (Mead Johnson & Co.'s Mucomyst). Many young patients get along well if they sleep, and perhaps lie down for a while during the day, in mist tents. In somewhat more severe cases, they inhale the mist under gentle pump pressure (TIME, Nov. 22, 1963). But in the most severe cases, this still is not enough. In St. Louis, Dr. Herman W. Reas and Dr. Paul R. Hackett put such patients under a general anesthetic, then inserted a bronchoscope through the mouth and windpipe into the bronchial branches and poured...