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PUCCINI: "Perfect for ironing. One needs some lush, lyrical and isolated selection to get one through a cotton blouse or dress. Puccini is particularly good if one does not have a steam iron and has to dampen things. One can cry automatically, gently and without despair, which helps in the dampening...
...mile-long line linking Casper with Billings, Mont. At Billings the $7,200,000 line of the Pacific Power & Light Co. hooks into the big Pacific Northwest power pool. Next year the line will be extended from Casper to nearby Glenrock, Wyo., to link up a $23 million steam electric plant which Pacific Power is rushing to completion. With the new plant operating, Wyoming's electric generating capacity will increase 50%, transforming the state from a power-deficit area, shunned by industry, to a highly attractive power-surplus area...
...Pacific Steam Navigation Co. Liverpool, England
...fact that borrowings from the Federal Reserve system had soared from $553 million to $1 billion in one week forced the Fed's hand. This seemed solid evidence to the Federal Reserve Board that the real danger is still inflation-and the boom still has plenty of steam...
Except in combat, oil-burning warships generally steam slowly, to conserve fuel. Nuclear ships can cruise around the earth at top speed, and reach their home ports with their nuclear bunkers still undrained. This is an enormous tactical advantage. A nuclear task force can stay at sea for months, always maintaining a speed that makes it a difficult target...