Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement came almost two years to the day (Feb. 13, 1947) after Alberta's famed Leduc well had started production. In those two years Alberta's output had risen to 45,000 barrels a day, was just a shade short of meeting the average daily oil requirements (55,000 barrels) of Canada's three prairie provinces...
Kongsgaard relaxed as he picked up speed ("When the wind starts to bite, I am free from tension"), gave a strong kick as he reached the takeoff. A few seconds later the crowd let out a roar. His 290-ft. jump was 60.96 feet short of the world mark, but it had set a new U.S. (and North American) record, breaking the old one of 289 feet set by his late countryman, Torger Tokle* at Iron Mountain, Mich, seven years...
...looked him over as a basketball prospect, but decided that he was too awkward. He decided on a pre-law course at Chicago's De Paul University. There, Coach Ray Meyer made him shadow-box and skip rope until Mikan panted: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Short, husky Coach Meyer is still hard to satisfy. Says he of Mikan: "He'd be great if he were nine inches smaller." His size sets Mike apart, even among pro basketball players. At home he requires a specially-made 7-ft. bed and an elongated reclining chair. His appetite...
Yaleman Stewart, who succeeded his father as president of the A.C. & Y., got his transportation know-how by building his road into one of the most successful short-line carriers in the U.S. Last year it netted about $1,000,000. His conveyor belt, he thinks, will do even better. To finance it, he has already lined up backers who will put up the $210 million construction cost, and take bonds which Stewart hopes to pay off in 20 years. Stewart intends to start building his conveyor in a year, have it running in three...
...this private and public effort was neither fast enough nor big enough for Cap Krug and his Under Secretary Oscar L. Chapman, who last week called for a doubling of the U.S.'s generating capacity in the next ten years. Chapman thought that the U.S. would be short of power for years. Private utility companies disagreed. They guessed there would soon be a surplus, unless a new demand was created. To create that demand, the Edison Electric Institute last week started a nationwide drive for all-electric kitchens...