Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Physically, the new house should include, as the Overseers suggest, a subterranean parking lot. Students who have cars should have a place to keep them. As recent apartment house construction has proven, below-level parking is highly practical, and parking space beneath the House would compensate for many disadvantages. While the initial cost would be large, the investment would in the long run pay for itself...
Scheduled for 1960 completion, the $75 million Astor Plaza will have a rooftop helicopter landing field, a sub-basement garage, a sunken garden, subterranean passages to funnel its 10,000 workers to nearby subways. Architects Robert Carson and Earl Lundin plan to set the metal and glass-faced tower back from the thoroughfare, flank it with one- and two-storied shops and restaurants to give emphasis to the slab construction...
...drilling mud that will make it possible to reach oil at depths that could neyer be attempted before, save more than $50,000 in costs on deep wells. Chemical muds are pumped down inside a drill pipe to the bit and then back up the hole, thus holding down subterranean oil pressures, keeping the bit cool, and carrying the drill cuttings back up to the surface. In deep holes, conventional muds jell under the intense heat and dry up at 300° F, cause expensive delays. The new muds, DMS (Drilling Mud, Surfacant) and DME (Drilling Mud, Emulsifier), which...
...cave was man's first natural home: some atomic-age pundits fear that it may also be his last. Oddly, however, though man has probed earth's atmosphere, mapped its surface, scaled its highest peaks and scraped its ocean bottoms, he has largely neglected the myriad subterranean realms. In alpine cliché, a mountain is climbed "because it is there." The spelunker's incentive is that a cave is never even "there" until it is found and its depths are plumbed and proved. Mountaineering has its classic literature−Annapurna, The White Tower, etc.−but caves...
...permanent night underground is not for sissies, as many a bruised alpinist knows after haughtily trying subterranean slumming. The most rugged U.S. cave, West Virginia's hellish Schoolhouse−featuring such obstacles as "bottomless" (down to 70 ft.) fissures and sheer-rock faces that long defied human spiders, 180-ft. dropoffs past receding walls in thin air−can be negotiated by the most skilled mountaineers in eight to ten hours, round trip. As the bat flies, Schoolhouse is a mere 1,600 ft. long, but the rate of travel for the best spelunkers is less than...