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" A refrigerated van was hired to haul away the 48 crates of frozen theses"

"the crates are loaded into a large vacuum chamber normally used to train flight crews for high altitude conditions"

"the clock records the "up" time on a paper disc, as Sgt Handy reviews the contents through a 1-inch thick window of bullet proof glass"

"On Tuesday morning, 22 February, the racks were removed and the books rearranged on the floor of the chamber"

"As the week wore on and many volumes stubbornly refused to dry, they were hung from coat-hangers to promote air circulation"

"As the week wore on and many volumes stubbornly refused to dry, they were hung from coat-hangers to promote air circulation"

" The use of the chamber is not only charged for on an hourly basis, but available only at the sufferance of the Canadian Forces, who usually have other tasks to put it to; as as the week wore on Wayne Finlay, Emrys Evans, and Ray Mattadeen showed …

"in the end a few still-damp volumes were taken back to the University of Toronto to complete the drying"

"By midnight Sunday 600 crates of dry or partly damp books lined the corridors of the Galbraith bldg"

"1,000 crates of books are dollied into 'a' storey"

"the third floor viewed from the inside"

"Saturated books were initially abandoned so that priority could be given to the dry and merely damp... freezing temperatures returned Monday, and the saturated books froze to the shelves."

"Many of the seriously wet books must be abandoned"

"Exterior wall of Sanford Fleming bldg, north side; the third floor roof, directly above the Engineering Library, burned out and collapsed"

"Freezer Room, Wallberg Building. 600 saturated civil engineering theses had been flash frozen at -40 degrees F"

"Richard Landon interviewed by CFTO-ch 9 News team"

"Many of the seriously wet books must be abandoned"

"After 3 hours "up" at 105,000ft., Sgt Handy releases the vacuum for a swift descent"