Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's biggest family-owned firms. Solvay has long held a controlling interest in the Société Belge de Banque; but the bank's limited deposits of $175 million have proved increasingly inadequate for Solvay's growing needs. Solvay can now tap the vast resources of the banks with which it is merging, and la Générale will strengthen its connection with one of the world's most promising industries. Besides, through Antwerp's Banque d'Anvers, the company establishes a firmer foothold in Belgium's fastest-growing...
...clean, but the Seine is murky and grey, except for the occasional white fluff of detergent suds. Once England's M.P.s fished for salmon in the Thames at Westminster. No more. In Poland, the Vistula's filtration system is clogged with silt and scum, and Warsaw must tap other water sources. Sickest of all the Great Lakes, Erie is so close to dying that the states along its shore face the prospect of paying a billion dollars apiece for pollution control...
...Telltale Tap Water. The trouble is that such conventional methods of treatment and purification as filtration, dilution and chlorination are unable to cope with some of today's contaminants. Household detergents pass through modern treatment plants with only partial removal. Certain synthetic chemicals, reports the U.S. Public Health Service, can travel hundreds of miles, go through a treatment plant, and still show up in tap water...
...grander scale, the Los Angeles engineering firm of Ralph M. Parsons Co. has proposed a scheme to tap the vast water reserves of northern Canadian rivers. Called NAWAPA, for North American Water and Power Alliance, the project would channel the waters to the Canadian prairies, 33 U.S. states, and three states of northern Mexico, opening up in Mexico alone eight times as much irrigated land as in the Aswan Dam region. But NAWAPA would cost $60 billion to $100 billion and take more than 30 years to complete...
...rewrite its air treaty with the U.S. to make Japan Air Lines the third foreign line (after Australia's Qantas and Britain's BOAC) to fly coast to coast across the U.S. to New York. The reason is obvious: Japan Air Lines could then begin to tap the rich transatlantic market. Japan wants to be able to fly into New York both over the Great Circle route and via the West Coast...