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With his power and influence restored, and with a relatively weak man in the Speaker's chair. Mills now has his greatest chance before him. For years he has cherished the grand ambition of drastically reforming the nation's tax structure???and the beginning of that task is at hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: An Idea on the March | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...year old President, a Cambridge mathematics man of great note, put matters in motion with a resume of the modern description of Earth's age and structure. Age?"definitely between one and 10 billion years" as estimated by timing the decomposition of uranium and other radioactive elements. Structure???a hades-hot metallic core, rigid as steel; then an envelope of viscous material, kept fluid by enormous pressure, not heat conducting, having faint tides, upon which the earth's ,crust "floats". The elasticity of the envelope which is 60 miles beneath the crust, and the core's rigidity, had been deduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Itchen | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

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