Word: basin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undersea rocks. Last week Dr. Norman D. Newell, of New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University, was studying fossil seashells he had just brought back from the Peruvian Andes. They told him about the strata (possibly oil-bearing) deep under the Amazon Basin hundreds or thousands of miles away. They also suggested that an ancient ice age once chilled the sea water right across the equator...
...this was good news for the oil companies. Petroleum is believed to come from the dead bodies of minute animals sinking to the bottom of shallow seas. If the same marine fauna flourished in both the U.S. and South America, there should be good oil prospects in the Amazon Basin as well as in Texas...
Crimson sailors placed third in a fleet of 12 Schell Trophy competitors racing Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday in the Charles River Basin. Brown won with 240 points, followed by M.I.T. (234), Harvard (228), George Washington (224), and Yale...
Sailboats from 12 colleges will scud across the waters of the Charles River Basin this afternoon and tomorrow as New England undergraduate sailors hold their annual autumn regatta for the Schell Trophy. The winner will be in effect the fall intercollegiate sailing champion...
...either race today will qualify for next week's affair but the big hopes seem to lie in the persistent winning habits of Scully and Gardner in the Basin...