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Superstack: 1942

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September 1942. Deer Lodge County, Montana. "Anaconda Smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. The smokestack is the largest in the world: 585 feet in height with a diameter at base of seventy-five feet and at top of sixty feet. Flue gases are discharged at the rate of three to four million cubic feet per minute. The arsenic plant and flue gas cleaning apparatus are seen at the base of the stack." Photo by Russell Lee, Office of War Information. View full size.
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Liberals announce legislation to set stage for digital services tax

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Displays of the logos of technology companies.

The Liberal government announced legislation Tuesday that will pave the way for the implementation of a digital services tax, but it contains no date for when the tax will come into effect.

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Indian rescuers free all 41 workers trapped in a mountain tunnel for over 2 weeks

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Pushkar Singh Dhami (right), chief minister of Uttarakhand state, greeting a worker rescued from the site of the collapsed tunnel.

The workers had been trapped in the collapsed tunnel in the north of India since Nov. 15. Rescuers have drilled their way through debris to reach them.

(Image credit: AP)

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Roast Ducts: 1942

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September 1942. Deer Lodge County, Montana. "Smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Flues atop the battery of roasting furnaces; sulphurous and arsenic gases are carried to the large smokestack." Acetate negative by Russell Lee, Office of War Information. View full size.
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U.K. detects first human case of 'distinct' form of swine flu

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Breeding sows are seen inside a barn on a family run pig farm near Driffield, Britain, October 12, 2021.

Officials are racing to track the contacts of the United Kingdom's first human case of a "distinct" form of swine flu. On Monday, the U.K. Health Security Agency announced it had detected a single confirmed human case of influenza A(H1N2)v as part of routine national flu surveillance.

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