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Since war's end, the economic health of the world's currencies has been measured by the fever chart of unofficial gold prices. As people lost faith in their currencies and the financial condition of their countries, they scrambled to convert paper money into gold. The price of gold in India, China, Greece and other nations rose as high as $70 an ounce, v. the official rate...
Geophysicists have long thought that earthquakes are caused by a sudden release of strain (distortion) in the earth's crust. Dr. Benioff studied the records of all major earthquakes since 1904 and made a chart of their "strain-rebound" characteristics. Somewhat to his surprise, the chart made a regular, sawtooth pattern, with the teeth getting smaller and lower as the diagram approached...
Such regularity in a chart usually means that an overall law is operating. Dr. Benioff studied more records, made more charts, and found evidence that the earth generates earthquake-producing strain at a constant rate. When the strain is not released in earthquakes, it accumulates at crustal weak points until something has to give. Then comes a series of earthquakes, followed by a period of quiet until more strain has accumulated...
...says Dr. Benioff, there was a great burst of earthquakes that lasted three years.* This period produced a tall jog on Dr. Benioff's chart. Since then the jogs have been smaller. Today the earth is having continual, mild earthquake activity. This means in Dr. Benioff's theory that the strain in the crust is being released as fast as it is generated. By the same reasoning, a period of no earthquake activity ought to be followed by a proportionately violent flare...
When officials discovered a chart next to the new phones with check marks indicating the number of successful "penny" calls, the company removed the machines entirely. They were at a loss to explain the failure of their specially devised "spin-proof" shaft...