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Texas, where William Y. Penn, a consulting geologist, offered Alexander a job as gardener and his wife work as housekeeper. The Ranezays will live in the comfortable guest cottage on Penn's estate. Lydia, who learned English in the D.P. camp, wants to be a dress designer...
...geologist for 32 years and a onetime professor at the Colorado School of Mines Dr. Victor Ziegler long suspected that the land around Worland, Wyo. near the Big Horn Mountain range was loaded with oil. Seven years ago, with his wife Isabella, he set out to prove it. He and his wife drove their trailer to the end of a road, then trudged miles across rugged hills and gullies, often in below-zero weather, mapping the terrain. As rodman of the surveying team, Mrs. Ziegler would hold the 4-in.-wide, 16-ft. surveying rod where Ziegler directed, was often...
...company's personnel program has just paid off in a notable promotion for its most notable native employee: Guillermo Zuloaga, 47, brilliant geologist and administrator, elevated this month to Creole's board of directors. Stocky, incisive Zuloaga, who earned a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taught geology in Caracas' Central University and set up the government bureau known as the Ministry of Mines & Petroleum. Then, in 1939, Zuloaga went to work for Creole as assistant chief geologist...
Then the expedition tried dragging powerful magnets over the ground, hoping to pick up fragments of nickel-iron. The soil around the Arizona crater is full of such stuff, but not one bit did they find near the Chubb Crater. Geologist Meen suspects that the Chubb meteorite may have been made largely of stone, which disintegrated on impact and drifted away as dust...
...find the evidence. Attempts to find fragments of nickel-iron from the meteorite were unsuccessful. The expedition's mine detectors (lent by the U.S. Army) were scarcely more useful: they gave too many indications, squealed excitedly whenever they were brought near an ordinary granite boulder. Apparently, said Geologist Meen, the granite of the region contains enough magnetic iron ore to drive a mine detector wild...