Word: slopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company announced that it was splitting its stock two for one and increasing its dividend. Its first-half sales of $840 million were up 15.5%, and earnings were up 14% to $70 million. On top of that it has, with Humble Oil, confirmed an oil find on the North Slope of Alaska that Interior Secretary Stewart Udall calls "apparently the largest in the history of the country...
...billion, added 52 new producing wells for a total of 7,132, and built more than 500 new service stations while modernizing others. Now the Alaskan find is quite a layer of frosting on the cake. "Everybody else," says Anderson, "had pretty well written the Arctic Slope off because of cost, indifferent success, and the absolute need for a major discovery in order to have commercial significance." Atlantic Richfield thought about writing off the area too. On their 90,000 acres of leased land, the first well drilled, called Susie No, 1, turned out to be so expensive a lady...
...that snapped wrenches like matchsticks and froze the drilling equipment whenever work stopped, Atlantic as the working partner of the two brought in oil. The industry and the state of Alaska haven't been the same since. Competing companies who were about to pull out of the North Slope are renewing their efforts. The state government is talking about constructing a railroad and highway from Fairbanks, 390 miles away, to the North Slope fields. On Wall Street, Atlantic Richfield stock that was selling as low as 96 this year closed last week...
...conventional radar, make laser altimeters, range finders and aerial mappers remarkably accurate. In a demonstration of a laser distance-measuring device, Spectra-Physics, Inc. flew the instrument over a Philadelphia high school stadium at an altitude of 1,000 ft. A conventional radar altimeter would have indicated only the slope of the stadium; the laser picked out each row of seats, the one-foot space between each row, and even the slight depression of the running track at ground level. In no more than 20 years, Physicist Schawlow predicts, the laser will be a common tool "in the office...
...Degenerative blindness afflicts many Appalachian dwellers as a result of in breeding.) Lank and long-striding in his pale blue bib overalls, his sightless eyes gleaming under a faded brown fedora, Eb stalks his 52 hillside acres mending fences with the assurance of a man born to the slope. His four-room tar-papered house perches on a 45-degree cant with the same defiant certitude. With his wife Louise (pronounced Looeyes, hill style) and five children ? two of them his own, two nieces, and a grandchild ? Eb Herald survives the year in comparative comfort...