Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Russians build on frozen ground, they sink piles deep into the permafrost, melting the holes with steam jets. The piles are then wrapped in tar paper and greased, so that the topsoil, freezing and thawing with the seasons, cannot stick to them and heave them. But piles are scarce in much of Alaska, and Army engineers think they know something better: thick insulating mats to keep the permafrost always frozen...
Pittsburgh's downtown "Golden Triangle" was festooned with big, smoke-gushing boilers, supplying heat to office buildings. Motors chugged in the streets to turn power generators for lights. Railroad locomotives fed steam into three large, trackside buildings. Hundreds of businesses were still closed; about 50,000 people were still out of work...
...strength began to wane. Leaders of the A.F.L. trolley union, who had respected his picket lines for 18 days, sent their men back to the streetcars and buses. The coal truckers said to hell with George-and 384 of the Triangle's buildings got a full head of steam again...
...Ridge, Hanford and Chicago) are kept cool, but power piles will run at high temperature. Among the reacting uranium rods of a power pile will circulate a chemically inert gas, hot as a dragon's breath, deadly with radioactivity. This will heat a conventional boiler, yielding high-pressure steam, which, the scientists hope, will not be too radioactive to use in a turbine...
...Leigh got out of the Navy, outdoor advertising has boomed again. This year the industry will do a record $100 million worth of business, and Leigh, with signs in 19 cities, will gross over $2 million. His signs now blow real smoke rings, show coffee cups that exude real steam, and a giant box of Super Suds that spouts 5,000 large bubbles a minute. Forthcoming are a three-story soda pop ad in which full glasses will effervesce real balloons, some of which will contain tickets entitling the holder to a free drink, and a blimp-sized orange that...