Huge' Explosion Prepared.—An explosion described by an engineer as the biggest non-atomic upheaval ever off in the United States will be set off to disintegrate a cliff near Little Valley. Utah, on July 21. Construction • crews will set off 1,700,0001 b df explosives near Little Valley Harbour on the Great Salt Lake. The previous record non-atomic blast in the United States was 1,362,0001 b set off on February 5, 1949, at Bristol, Tennessee.—New York.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28329, 15 July 1957, Page 8
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