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valuable storage facility. The world’s biggest warehouse near Hutchinson, Kan., was carved from a worked-out portion of a salt mine. Owned by the Underground Vaults and Storage Company, its 300 acres of storage bays reach 650 feet below the surface of the earth.
A seed company sends down a bag or two of each new strain it develops so no surface light may annihilate the strain. Corporations store vital papers, microfilm documents, product formulas. One also keeps folding cots and a food supply, for use in case of nuclear war.
Other treasures salted away include more than 100,000 reels of classic films such as “Gone With the Wind,” Bibles, furs, paintings, stamp and coin collections, and wedding dresses.
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