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Show Biggest blast The largset blast in the history his-tory of the world underground mining was recently fired in the Frood-Stobie mine of the International Nickel Company in the Sudbury District of Ontario. On-tario. Requiring 464 tons of powder, the blast shattered a cubic area the size of a football foot-ball field into more than five million tons of loose rock and ore. The precious metal platinum is used to make high-quality flutes. Eight such platinum flutes, each costing $5,000, are being played by musicians today. to-day. Farming employs 6 million workers more than the combined employment in transportation, trans-portation, public utilities, the steel industry, and the automobile automo-bile industry. The West Point cadet mess hall has an automatic dishwasher dish-washer 26 feet long, with a capacity ca-pacity of 10,000 pieces an hour. |