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Engineer Riddick wastes little time on Henry's theory that water rises from great depths underground and distributes itself in veins (it actually comes from rain, streams, etc.), but he hopes that people will not put too much faith in shallow, dowser-found wells. Heavy pumping can drain them dry when most needed, he warns, and many are contaminated...
Phase Four (the present phase) was limited in a relatively shallow strip of territory, most of it below the 38th parallel, in which the fighting surged back & forth. The Chinese launched a new offensive which came in two hard punches. The U.N. armies moved slightly with the punch, but by now they were hardened, battlewise, and well enough equipped to be able to take it-and to dish it out. Overwhelming superiority of U.N. air power and artillery, used with generally high U.N. morale, inflicted huge casualties on the Chinese, may have broken much of their will to win back...
...take him about four minutes to go up and turn back. We'd be that much ahead of the game. West of Sinanju the gunners reported the MIGs again, 9 o'clock high, forming for attack. I pulled the formation together and instructed the pilots to make shallow turns into the Red fighters. That would get us near them faster, give them less shooting time...
Blodgett's vegetables grow in narrow, shallow concrete beds which look like giant window boxes and are filled with gravel; three times a day, they are fed with water containing the necessary nutrients (nitrogen, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium). The water, drained back by gravity into an underground reservoir, is used over & over again. There are two farms, one at Chofu, 14 miles from Tokyo, the other near Kyoto. The larger installation at Chofu has 50 acres of hydroponic plots in the open and five acres under a million-dollar greenhouse, has its own ice plant and railroad siding...
...uncommon candor: "Basically, the Broadway theater is not an art, but an unsuccessful form of high-pressure huckstering ... It is not developing playwrights, actors or directors. It is doing the best it can to commit suicide." And on Broadway first-nighters: "They bring nothing into the theater except shallow, distracted minds and tired emotions . . . they have nothing to give. They are the unburied dead, brushed, combed, richly dressed, and expensively embalmed...