Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their royalties to result from the opera fever that has broken out across the U.S. among amateur and semi-pro groups. University workshops in particular have eagerly seized on such short works as Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Tele phone and Kurt Weill's Down in the Valley. In that company archy and mehitabel should easily hold its own: it is consistently imaginative and toujours...
With water pushing through the turbines at the rate of 176,500 cu. ft. per second, the Rance Valley project will produce an annual 550 million kw-h of electricity-enough to supply the needs of a city about the size of Richmond, Va. Estimated completion date...
Trickles & Troubles. No one questions Mattei's success in natural gas, but his attempts to give Italy an oil industry have failed. In the promising Po Valley, E.N.I, has produced only a trickle of oil, some 83,000 tons (636,000 bbls.) in 1953. Critics claim that E.N.I, has neither the capital nor the equipment to explore the Po Valley properly. By monopolizing all explorations, Mattei has spent badly needed Italian cash, including some dollar aid from the U.S., when he could have had U.S. firms spend their own money to explore the area. Even in E.N.I...
...Italy's political powers, is about to topple from his perch atop the Italian oil industry. But in Italy's Chamber of Deputies there is increasing talk of reviving a buried draft of a proposed law that would authorize E.N.I, to farm out part of its Po Valley explorations to foreign oil companies with equipment and money to make...
Stair Climber. A two-wheeled, power-driven hand truck has been developed by the Valley Craft Products Inc., Lake City, Minn. to take heavy loads up or down stairs or ramps. A special ratchet mechanism allows the "Stair Cart" to climb stairs, is powerful enough to lift a 200-lb. load straight up a 4-ft. wall. Price: about...