Word: subsoilers
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...years of negotiation, on 38 tons as the maximum weight for a long-haul truck, but they still have not stipulated how this weight should" be distributed over each axle. Five of the six prefer 13-ton limits per axle, but the Dutch, because of their soggy, shifting subsoil, demand a lighter weight of ten tons. Similarly, in designing a common farm tractor, the Dutch want safety features to prevent the tractor from toppling backward as it pulls attachments through their heavy-clay lowland soil. The French want a tractor engineered not to topple sideways on the hills, where much...
...Brooks and Llewellyn Pitts. Basically it is a chunky, $5,000,000 rectangular marble box rising six stories above some elegant but unrelated granite vaultwork. Since much of Mexico City sits on what was a lake, the building must be broad-footed to avoid sinking into muddy subsoil. A Mexican engineer, Leonardo Zeevaert, designed a displacement foundation that is in effect a watertight ship, and the weight of the building that it supports exactly equals the weight of the soil removed in excavation. Mexicans call it "the floating embassy...
...deal. As the argument raged on, the Peruvians finally agreed to put the matter to international arbitration before a Swiss judge. But the case never got to court. In 1922, after considerable pressure from Britain, the Peruvian government agreed that London & Pacific actually owned both surface and subsoil rights to the entire 416,140 acres; in return Peru got a company promise to pay at least nominal taxes. Crying duress, Peru's outraged Congress refused to ratify the agreement...
...decade's average annual production of 994 million bu. Farmers will probably increase planted acreage by 5% to 10%. But last year grain production was almost halved by the worst drought since the dust-bowl '30s and by a savage invasion of grasshoppers. Already this season, subsoil moisture is at "critically low levels," and as May planting begins, all depends on the arrival of what the farmers call "million-dollar rains" before June. "Hamilton sure has sold grain," a Saskatchewan farmer dourly observed last week. "Now can he make it rain...
...Woodstock College. In the current issue of The Catholic World, Father Weigel provides an equably tempered, coolly reasoned analysis of what he calls "The Protestant Stance Today." Conventional Protestants who have given the matter little thought may be somewhat surprised at Father Weigel's spadework in the intellectual subsoil of the ground they stand...