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...annual flow is 10 million acre-feet, about equal to one of the poorer years of the Colorado. According to one plan, an 813-ft. dam at Ah Pah, near the mouth of the Klamath, will back it far up its southern tributary, the Trinity. A tunnel 60 miles long under the Bully Choop Mountains will export 6,000,000 acre-feet into the Sacramento. After getting a boost from a battery of pumps, the water will follow a canal to Bakersfield. Then another tunnel under the Tehachapi Mountains will take it to Los Angeles, and to needy areas from...
...dawn one day last week, the day shift went down to take over from the night shift at Easington colliery, Durham, England. In the long, narrow tunnel leading from the main shaft to the coal face, 1,000 feet below the surface, 40 incoming miners filed past 40 outgoing miners. By the dim light of their head lamps, they exchanged the customary cheery "Good morning." Suddenly an explosion shook the earth. The 80 men were buried beneath tons of debris...
...Niagara Falls will see something besides water and mist this summer. Last week work began on the biggest international hydroelectric project in history: a $157 million construction job which will divert part of the Niagara River's water around the falls, shoot it through a 5½-mile tunnel bored in solid rock 300 feet below the heart of Niagara Falls, Ont., and into a giant penstock to create 600,000 h.p. of electricity for fast-growing southern Ontario. The project, not to be confused with the much-debated St. Lawrence seaway, was approved in a treaty signed between...
...best-known wind tunnels are vast, bellowing monsters that soak up the local power supply and drive the neighbors nuts. Last week Dr. Richard G. Folsom of the University of California described a quieter and trickier tunnel. Built with Navy and Air Force funds, it is a stainless steel tube only 5 ft. long and 18 in. in diameter. Its purpose: to simulate aerodynamic conditions near the earth's outer frontier-the atmosphere 50 miles...
...previously-mentioned wine sale came up in the manner, Brinton explains. Before the war the Society bought 2,000 bottles of the best Burgundy from a French schoolteacher. This supply was stored in an improvised wine cellar in the basement. Unfortunately, the basement room was next to a steam tunnel, and by 1950 the heat had slightly turned at least one of the remaining bottles of wine. So the Society sold all of them to its members...