Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody was going to tap old Vesuvius. But, the U.S. State Department announced, Italy is going to eke out its meager power supply with volcanic energy. A $6,000,000 new power station will be built at Lar-derello (near Leghorn), using volcanic steam to generate about 75,000 kilowatts...
Actually, the use of volcanic energy is nothing new in Italy. In a yo-square-mile district around Larderello, steam mixed with chemicals has hissed out of the ground since classical times. It gets its energy from a mass of hot rock that worked its way toward the surface ages ago and has not cooled...
Britons who consider it unseemly to show emotion over human affairs can steam up quickly over fauna and flora. Especially birds. A wartime British movie, The Tawny Pipit (TIME, Oct. 6), pretty well proved that one rural village had almost forgotten the Battle of Britain for a fortnight in its excitement over the nesting drama of two rare specimens of Anthus campestris...
...television, operating a six-station network in the East, and ready to link it to a seven-station Midwest network in December. By the end of the year, NBC will be up to half-steam, owning all the stations FCC allows (five), and beaming programs to 31 affiliates. Paramount Pictures already has two stations in operation, and a 29% interest in the Du Mont network. A fortnight ago, Warner Bros. applied for a station in Chicago; last week 20th Century-Fox asked for a San Francisco license...
...Percenters. In 16 turbulent years Eddie Arcaro has ridden 11,868 races. He has won 2,223 of them. One reason why Eddie Arcaro is still at it (the average jockey lasts only four or five years) is that he seldom has to visit steam boxes to keep his weight down. Most jockeys resort to all the tricks, including taking cathartics, to lose weight, and sometimes lose their health as well...