Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...underground stack could eventually fill the entire South-eastern corner of the Yard, housing 2,000,000 volumes. In 1949 the first such structures was finished beneath Lamont, with a 500,000 volume capacity...
...continue this effort. Metcalf has devised a four way censure to crowding the central collection. When he arrived in 1937, there was room for three years growth. Since then he has realized an undergraduate library, a rare book library, a storehouse for little-used books, and the construction of underground stack space...
Five years of drought have dried up some 250,000 square miles centering on the Texas-Oklahoma panhandles and stretching into Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. In places the underground water table has dropped below the disastrous levels of the 1930s. The drought has left more than 18 million acres "in condition to blow"; since November alone, dust storms have damaged 7,000,000 acres, and this week another heavy duster blew up. In Colorado 26 counties have already been classified disaster areas...
SABOTAGE. The so-called "satchel bombs" that may be planted by saboteurs, landing parties or paratroopers in a future war are likely to explode in basements, subway stations or other underground places. Knowledge of their effect on subsurface conduits and structures will be valuable to both civil and military authorities...
...industry was there in force to back FPC's position. Federal regulation will bring on short supplies, warned Ernest Thompson, a member of the Texas Railroad Commission (which enforces conservation of Texas' underground oil and gas). Rather than accept a money-losing, Government-fixed price, gasmen may refuse to export their gas out of the state, said Thompson. Already, federal control has brought on a sharp drop in prospecting for gas, said Standard Oil (Indiana) Economist John Boatwright...