Word: reservoirs
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...million powerhouse and reservoir, located in Cornwall and Highlands about 40 miles north of New York City, would be used to fill peak demands for power in the City and in Westchester County...
California, that land of anomalies, imports 36% of its crude oil while the continent's largest proven reservoir of untapped oil sits untouched under the harbor and waterfront of Long Beach. The size of this pool-1.2 billion bbl.-has been certain for four years, but Long Beach ordinances forbade drilling inside the city and the city fathers disagreed with the state over the division of royalties. Finally, last fall, the drilling laws were relaxed and a split finally agreed on: 85% for California, 15% for Long Beach...
...expelling or jailing American diplomats. An increasing number, fortunately, have found a more useful path to national pride: hiring foreign architects to design government buildings, hospitals, universities and even cities. To meet this demand, a colony of American firms has sprung up in Rome, which otters the nearest reservoir of technical talent and the best transportation to the underdeveloped nations. Last week Rome's top American architects ranged over Africa and Asia Minor, supervising hospital construction in Nigeria and Iraq, launching a highway project in Libya, delivering final drawings for a prison in Baghdad...
Leak in the Reservoir. Last week's affair was the fourth anti-American "demo" in three months, and although there is an immense reservoir of pro-American feeling in the island nation, it could run out if taken too much for granted. The last three demonstrations were set off by tragic incidents on U.S. military bases. In November an off-duty U.S. airman, allegedly bird hunting with a .22-cal. rifle, shot and killed a 15-year-old Filipino boy scavenging for scrap metal on Clark Air Force Base. The next month, two Marine Corps sentries...
...Newspaper Syndicate of Chicago, is not at all concerned about finding a successor for him. Tucked away in N.N.S. files is half a century's worth of Brady columns that, because of their basic approach to medicine, are not likely to go out of style. By tapping this reservoir, N.N.S. can keep Dr. Brady somersaulting in print for countless years after his death-and intends doing...