Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...many of them woefully ignorant of the art, who are seeding the atmosphere with silver iodide throughout the dry Southwest. "Some of them," he said, "are using hundreds of thousands of times too much. No more than one milligram [.000035 oz] of silver iodide should be used for every cubic mile...
Last month they shipped three cubic yards of food and suplies down to Lima--including half a mile of rope, 200 vinylite bags, one copy of Sherwood and Taylor's "Calculus," and three cases of needle soup...
...wells have been capped, and new pipeline operators have found it hard to line up contracts for sufficient gas. The majority of those who did had to agree that the contracts would be canceled if FPC got control over gas prices. One result: out of the 5.7 trillion cubic feet of gas produced in the Southwest in 1948, only 1.2 trillion feet went through the interstate pipelines...
...years the price of gas in the field has risen, in some cases quintupled (the price had been so low ten years ago that gas had virtually been given away). Yet the average price of natural gas to residential users had dropped from 70.9¢ per 1,000 cubic feet in 1939 to 63.5¢ in 1948. Even if the Kerr bill becomes law, the rates charged by transmission companies and utilities will still be regulated by FPC or state utility commissions...
...Gordon W. Reed, chairman of small-sized Texas Gulf Producing Co.: "Where the price of gas will end, no one can predict right now, but it is definitely going to reach its economic level. Prices to producers in the Southwest could go up another 5/ or 6/ a thousand cubic feet [roughly 55%] without affecting consumers' prices- in the North...