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The Northwest's private utilities are uneasy because the "preference clause" in federal power law specifies that publicly-owned companies can purchase all the power they need before private utilities get any. The Bonneville Power Administration did make short-term contacts with private companies during the war, but the private...
One of Publisher Highland's oldest and bitterest fights is against radio. He bans all program listings, even censors ads that mention radio or have anything to do with it. Lately, however, Publisher Highland has brought his papers up to date in at least one respect: he has turned...
Heezen and Ewing appealed to Western Union and other cable companies. Just as they hoped, the companies had made careful studies of the costly disaster 24 years ago and had kept all the records. As each cable failed, the exact second of its failure was recorded by instruments on land...
Bit by bit, Heezen and Ewing reconstructed what must have happened on that day of undersea commotion. The sea bottom near the epicenter of the quake is rather irregular with many comparatively steep slopes of loose material. The quake must have jolted this detachable stuff, starting slumps and landslides that...
This reasoning is supported by the fact that many cables were not merely broken but buried by the mud flow. Heezen and Ewing believe that many such flows, racing for hundreds of miles through the still depths of the ocean, have carved the gorges on their slopes. The "deltas," where...