Word: tankfuls
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...dense as at sea level. Once discharged at that altitude, the gases will not fall for weeks or months, and the air in which they will be floating is so thin that a small amount of contamination can have profound effects. Physicists Jerome Pressman, William Reidy and Winifred Tank of Geophysics Corp. of America have calculated that 25 tons of fluorine can scavenge out of the earth's atmosphere all the free electrons that now make long-distance radio communication possible. Some 25,000 tons of hydrogen, which is soon to be burned in just such vast quantities, could...
...make a U-turn through traffic and there aren't six cars waiting and you need gas or something, please stop in." With the help of California's chirpy ad agency Weiner & Gossage, Petrofina spoofs competitors' seemingly endless additives by transporting its gas in pink tank trucks and giving away "Pink Air-the additive of the future." Petrofina reports a healthy rise in U.S. profits and sales (now $77 million...
...remedied that lack by setting up a Rube Goldberg process that begins when tankers from Tampico sail into Brownsville loaded with residual crude consigned to the Mexican national oil monopoly in the city of Matamoros just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville. Unloaded under U.S. customs supervision into bonded tanks, the oil is transferred into tank trucks, which immediately set off on the eight-mile run to the Gateway Bridge between Brownsville and Matamoros. Once they reach Matamoros, the trucks make a wide U-turn and swing back onto the bridge, where U.S. customs officers now accept their cargo...
...Kaiser Foundation Hospital discovered that both mother and son had been infected with a microbe that is close kin to the bacillus of tuberculosis. Theirs were the first reported cases, say Dr. Sheldon Swift and Harold Cohen in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which a fish tank served as the incubator. The germ, undiscovered until the early 1950s, had previously been found nourishing only in swimming pools. There it has caused several outbreaks of what has usually been called simply sore elbow...
Nobody knows how many cases of swimming-pool elbow or fish-tank finger may have gone undetected. "Swimming pools and fish tanks." says Dr. Swift, "constitute giant culture bowls-in both, water is being constantly recirculated and kept at certain temperatures that might happen to be suitable for the growth of the bacilli." Temperature seems to be a critical factor. In the laboratory, the bacilli grow poorly in a cool medium or at blood heat, do best at around 80°. That is in the temperature range of the exposed elbows and hands where they form abscesses...