He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Geisel's birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association.
Types of Direct Burial Cables. The most common types of direct burial cable used in residential projects are underground service entrance (USE) and underground feeder (UF). Type USE cable is usually black and is most often used for buried lines that bring the power from the utility's transformer to individual houses.
This may be a rigid steel or aluminum pipe, called a conduit, or in one of several varieties of metal or non-metallic tubing. Wires run underground, for example, may be run in steel or plastic tubing encased in concrete, but metal elbows may be used in severe pulls. Wiring in exposed areas, for example factory floors, may be run in raceways or cable trays. For protection from flame spread, fire stopping material of silicone may be used.