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Shortly after the turn of the century, the Meteor Crater area was staked out as a mining claim by an engineer named Daniel Moreau Barringer. He and his sons, who inherited the claim when he died, have done some drilling themselves and have leased the claim at times to various other groups, but all attempts to exploit the crater's treasure have failed. Mr. Barringer first drilled in the centre, believing that because the crater was round the body must have fallen vertically. When he performed the highly ingenious experiment of firing bullets and shotgun charges into clay, however...
...Manhattan last week Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg told how he had made a complete magnetic survey of the whole Meteor Crater area. Mr. Lundberg is president of his own company in Toronto, but he is working at present for someone else, who prefers to remain anonymous. Using sensitive variometers (containing magnetic needles responding to large masses of metal), he went over the ground, made a "magnetic profile." This showed two humps several hundred feet southwest of the rim, the larger covering an area 2,000 by 1,500 ft. He believes that the meteoritic clumps corresponding to these humps...
Biggest airplane yet constructed in the U. S., Boeing's "314" is the first of six Atlantic Clippers for P. A. A. Among its features new to passenger aircraft are: 1) a "flight deck" for the twelve-man crew as big as the total inside area of the biggest U. S. land transport now flying; 2) engines, reached by a catwalk through the wings, behind which an engineer can stand to mend fuel lines, change spark plugs in flight; 3) unlike any other flying boat, once in the water it will remain there and, like a ship, emerge only...
Facing the Yale team with a lineup of Warwick Stabler, Gay Dillingham, and Skiddy von State, the Crimson mallet men will play in a much smaller area than that to which they are accustomed in a four period game...
...Barcelona, officials of Spain's Leftist Government confirmed last week that recent Rightist victories in the Teruel sector (TIME, Feb. 14) "completely eliminated the spearhead" which Leftist forces previously drove in north of Teruel. Rightist officials said their troops had recaptured an area twice as great as that taken from them by the Leftist offensive which took Teruel (TIME, Jan. 17, et ante), but the Rightists last week had not recaptured Teruel itself...