Word: silo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Illinois division of Wheaton Industries, needed a petrochemical-based plastic resin that is in short supply because of the energy crisis. His normal supplier could not deliver in less than four months, and waiting that long would cost Wheaton a potential contract. Caulfield knew someone who had a silo full of the resin, and made a deal to borrow 40,000 Ibs. -which he will repay by turning over the resin that his normal supplier eventually delivers...
...massive curves, goes back to medieval Siena. The immense cylinders, arcs and courts at Dacca were inspired by the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. At times, Kahn's forms possess a superb and primal practicality. The Ahmedabad dormitories, for instance, with their stairs set in a thick vertical silo flanked on either side by dark openings, are both a celebration of the sun and a defense against it. Structure is to architectural history as history is to instinct. The unique power of Kahn's work is to excite one's participation on all levels...
...compare with the massive embassy operations rather as a skilled armored thrust compares with human-wave tactics in war." Moreover, the growing phalanxes of routine operatives are supported by spy-in-the-sky satellites that can send back photographs showing the precise diameter of a newly dug missile silo. But even as the modern army still needs the foot soldier, so does espionage still need the agent on the ground. "A photograph may show you what a new plane looks like." says a key intelligence expert, "but it won't tell you what's inside those engines and how they...
...build-but not operate -a $150 million oil-desulfurization plant at the head of glorious Penobscot Bay. The proposed site: the little town of Searsport (pop. 1,800), a drab, faded conglomeration of weather-beaten brick buildings, a railroad depot, an oil tank farm and a Purina Dog Chow silo. Though Clean Fuels had previously been turned down by both Riverhead, N.Y., and South Portland, Me., it was in effect invited to Searsport, whose selectmen have already approved the 200,000-barrels-a-day refinery. "I'm not for pollution," says Paul Staples, owner of a Searsport hardware store...
...have detected some new ICBM construction in the Soviet Union-we are not sure exactly what it is or what the Soviet intentions are." Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee that the Russians had initiated "a new ICBM-silo construction program -the silos are unlike any others they have previously constructed." One intelligence source claimed that the silos were bigger than those for the S59 and that the missiles seemed to have "a smaller warhead cluster," and presumably greater stability and accuracy...