Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday, with sale prices not yet in effect, half the shirts were gone. Equally astounding have been some of his results in other lines. One morning last summer he briefly mentioned that the drinking water had a peculiar taste. By 4:30 the same afternoon the Hollywood dam reservoir had been partially drained and workmen were ready to clean it. Wiley frankly tells his adoring audience he won't answer their fan letters (about 2,500 a month), bases his success on two rules: 1) accept no "catchem and killem projects"; 2) always tell the girls the truth...
...Tuolumne River are dammed in the big blue lake called Hetch Hetchy. Without Hetch Hetchy, San Franciscans would sometimes have gone waterless; so would many a farm in the valley between, a land rainless four months or more a year. Fifteen years ago San Franciscans put their famous reservoir to another use. At Mocassin Creek near the valley floor they built turbines, harnessed nearly 100,000 horsepower of electricity. City-owned transmission lines carry the power to Newark near San Francisco Bay. There, 27 miles from Nob Hill, the power leaves the city's hands, enters those...
...ordinary metal casting, molten metal is poured into a mold, allowed to cool, then removed. After long experiment, several metallurgical manufacturers have devised a way to cast high-grade metal rods continuously-that is, in an endless strip, as newsprint is made. Molten metal is fed from a reservoir to a water-cooled tube. As the metal flows down and out of the tube, a water spray cools it so that it can be continuously withdrawn as a solid rod. The Industrial Bulletin of Arthur D. Little Inc. (Boston consultants) states that continuously cast rods are free of air cavities...
...dribbling Kilauea's flanks with fire. High above Kilauea, in old Mauna Loa, Pele still broods. Five years ago she hurled a 600-ft.-wide stream of lava down towards Hilo, principal city of the island of Hawaii. The lava was only three miles from the municipal water reservoir, within twelve miles of Hilo, when a squadron of Army bombers dropped 1,200 Ibs. of explosives into Mauna Loa's vomiting crater, diverted the flow...
...Jewish families, with equipment and sufficient capital to get them started, will arrive in Santo Domingo this spring. They will be settled on a smiling plot of 26,685 acres near Sosua, in the north, which has already been improved to the extent of 24 dwellings, a reservoir, 4,950 acres of cultivated pasture land and abundant timber. All this was donated by none other than General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, former President of the Dominican Republic, now dubbed "Benefactor of the Fatherland." Benefactor Trujillo, whose word is still law in the Republic, personally guaranteed the contract; and in a letter...