A smaller cubic acre, just what's needed!

[lgiver@postoffice.pacbell.net]

I didn't receive the daily email 2 days ago, which would have been 
#1019.  I don't know if it's just my problem, or if no one received 
#1019.  But my post of July 25 is in the archieves, and presumably was 
on issue #1019.   I had re-read several letters to the editor is US 
issues in 1991 and 1992 discussing the size of Scrooge's money bin, and 
the definition of a cubic acre.   The most interesting letter was by 
Brian Schmidt in US 256 (July 1991).  He suggested that Barks intended a 
cubic acre to mean the volume of a cube with a TOTAL surface area of one 
acre, rather than an acre on each of its 6 sides, as many (including 
myself) presumed.  By this definition a cubic acre is only about 7% of 
the larger definition, and is in much closer agreement with the 
dimensions on the blueprints for the Killmotor Hill money bin.
                ------------Larry Giver.