Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy's underground antisubmarine warfare plotting room in Norfolk, sailormen stand 24-hour-a-day vigil over a map that represents the millions of square miles of Atlantic Ocean (see cut). From the Navy's far-flung detection posts come reports of unidentified contacts, instantly plotted with diamond-shaped metal markers. This wall-sized chart is televised daily to Atlantic Fleet Commander Jerauld Wright, Admiral U.S.N.; top-secret reports on sightings are typed on red paper, circulated among the proper officials of the Pentagon-and the typewriter ribbons are locked up after use to prevent unauthorized people from...
...acoustic method, suited for any kind of blast except for those set off underground or in outer space. With sensitive microbarometers and hydrophones, observation posts could pick up the low-frequency sound waves that fan out for thousands of miles after every nuclear explosion. Unfortunately, the sound waves are subject to distortion by such natural upheavals as volcanic eruptions, meteorites, landslides and even thunder. ¶ Collection of Radioactive debris that can travel up to 1,200 miles a day at a height of 40,000 ft. Touchy about having air patrols over their territory, the Russian scientists at first balked...
...Arturo Frondizi shattered his country's traditional go-it-alone oil policy by announcing that nearly $1 billion worth of oil development contracts were closed or nearly closed with a long list of foreign oil companies and investors. Argentina has an estimated 2.3 billion bbl. of oil in underground reserves, but snail-slow development forces the country to spend about $300 million a year for imported petroleum and petroleum products...
...grain. Last week, in his United Nations speech, President Eisenhower took due note that water could end much Middle Eastern misery, and offered U.S. aid in getting it. In Washington other top officials showed how water could be found. Some ways and means: ¶ Radioactive isotopes. To find underground water, which is plentiful in the Middle East, the U.S. will supply isotopes of the kind used by oilmen to trace pipeline leaks. They could map extraordinary untapped active reservoirs, such as the hidden river below the bed of the Nile, which carries 560 billion cubic meters of water per year...
...drop 1,800 ft. below sea level from the Mediterranean, creating tremendous hydroelectric power, and the Dead Sea would obligingly evaporate it to keep the current running. While the U.S. is not yet formally prepared to furnish nuclear explosives, the Atomic Energy Commission has already tested them in an underground blast, might well lend help and supplies if asked. ¶ Desalting water. The U.S. Department of the Interior, eying a 597 billion-gal, daily consumption in the U.S. by 1980 (v. 221 billion in 1955), has gone far in developing cheap desalting methods. Some of its pilot plants are producing...