Or, we could call it 582 million Quarter-Pounders…
Huge beef recall stems from Calif. plant
By GREG RISLING, Associated Press Writer Mon Feb 18, 2:11 AM ET
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs.
Officials said it was the largest beef recall in the United States, surpassing a 1999 ban of 35 million pounds of ready-to-eat meats. No illnesses have been linked to the newly recalled meat, and officials said the health threat was likely small.
The recall will affect beef products dating to Feb. 1, 2006, that came from Chino-based Westland/Hallmark Meat Co., the federal agency said.
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I shall show my method…
One pound of ground beef.
Let us assume there are 48 cubic inches in this pound.
143,000,000 lbs. X 48 cubic inches = 6,864,000,000 cubic inches.
There are 1728 cubic inches in a cubic foot.
Therefore, we have 3,972,222 cubic feet of ground beef.
I divided that number by what I believed to be a good-sized skyscraper floor plan of 200×200x12 feet; 480,000 cubic feet.
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I searched for a skyscraper with equally-sized floors and found the following structure.
Using the figures provided, I deduced that each floor on the Aon Center building contained approximately 490,908 cubic feet because of estimated dimensions of 200×200x12 feet per floor.
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Information
Location 200 East Randolph Street
Chicago, Illinois
Status Complete
Constructed 1970-1972
Opening 1973
Use Office
Height Roof 1,136 ft (346 m)
Technical details
Floor count 83 aboveground 5 belowground
Floor area 3,600,000 sq. ft. 334,448 m²
Elevator count 50
Cost $120,000,000 (USD)
Companies
Architect Edward Durell Stone
Contractor Turner Construction
Developer Standard Oil of Indiana
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Images: Building pix and specs are from en.wikipedia.org; (beef) kosherbegan.blogspot.com