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...mass, however, the star is no midget. Astronomer Luyten figures that it is 40% heavier than the sun. A cubic inch of its densely packed matter would weigh something like 1,000-tons, and if a 150-lb. man could stand on its surface, his body would weigh 300,000 tons...
...vital artery for the booming Canadian West, the oil line is to be finished early in 1954. At capacity 200,000 barrels a day, worth $164 million a year, will surge through the Inch-by-lnch...
...heard of the Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines," said Bob Amberger, a veteran construction boss on some of the world's biggest oil and gas lines. "Well, this one's the Inch-by-lnch...
...famed Yellowhead Pass route through the mountains, where the Canadian National Railways line was built 40 years ago, at a cost of millions of dollars and hundreds of lives. The C.N.R. still ranks as one of the great construction achievements in the development of Canada. The building of the Inch-by-lnch pipeline-driving a new road through the mountains, then blasting a 5-ft.-deep trench along the slopes, through swamps and under cascading rivers-may well rival the railroad as an engineering feat...
...last year) outstanding Chicago gynecologist and obstetrician; in Romeo, Mich. Born on a farm near Rochester, Mich., tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Dr. Van Hoosen was still operating several days a week in her 80s, had gained fame by making the world's smallest appendix incisions-half an inch...