Environmental Control at the Litton Advanced Marine Production Facility

Abstract

ABSTRACT“Factory chimneys belching black smoke once were hailed as signs of prosperity, of recovery from the Great Depression of the 1930's, of a future with two cars in every garage.Today, with eighty million more cars, trucks, and busses than 40 years ago, we see smoking stacks and acrid exhaust fumes as poisoners of the air we breathe, as examples and symbols of man's befoulment of the only home he has. Full realization of this sober truth has come since Christmas‐time 1968, when—through the eyes of cameras of moon‐orbiting astronauts Frank Bormann, James Lovell, Jr., and William Anders—we first saw our earth as a planet, and saw ourselves, in the words of poet Archibald MacLeish, “As Riders on the Earth Together, Brothers on that Bright Loveliness in the Eternal Cold—Brothers Who Know Now They are Truly Brothers.” Though worldwide and enormous, the problems of pollution surely are solved by a human race capable of such a feat of science and technology as flight to another heavenly body—given the most precious ingredient of all: “Peace on Earth, Good‐Will Toward Men.”