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...Then someone thought up the idea of melting it and forcing it to the surface with steam, and it revolutionized the industry. I think Shepherd's process may do the same for uranium." ¶ Jeeps with scintillometers roamed the back-country roads along Texas' Cap Rock, an outcrop of red sand and limestone running from Big Spring north to Amarillo. The rumor: the entire 200-mile stretch was hot. Other promising uranium areas were being opened up just across the Oklahoma line above Wichita Falls, in the Hueco Mountains near El Paso and in Brewster County...
Paleontologists know very little about that critical time, nearly 200 million years ago, when reptiles took the road that turned them into mammals, and eventually into man. They may know more soon. In the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona, an Indian Service agent found an outcrop of fossil-bearing rock. Driving down from Denver to investigate, Government Geologist G. Edward Lewis found that the fossils were in the Kayenta Formation, a rock stratum that runs through Navajo country for hundreds of miles. For fossil fanciers this was big news: in the Kayenta Formation fossils are almost unknown...
Based on a play by Hugh Hastings, Crest tells the plain tale of a minor scientific project set up by the British navy. A dozen officers and men, including three from the U.S. Navy, are sent to a rocky outcrop off the British coast with orders to develop a torpedo that will carry a new and highly sensitive explosive. As the camera grinds away at men and officers, it also grinds into the moviegoer's face the long, quiet pain of existing beneath a higher purpose. The work consoles what the isolation irks in the characters, but between...
...themselves, staked all the claims the law allows (nine each) before rushing out to Sudbury to register their find. When they did, they carried a first sample of ore that assayed $665 a ton, and an estimate, based on preliminary probing, that their gold-bearing mound was an outcrop of a 3,500-ft.-long vein...
...Lieut. MacAuley and Corporal Stewart were out to kill more than an afternoon. As Ern Malley they wrote: "For some years we have observed with distaste the gradual decay of meaning and craftsmanship in poetry. Harris and other Angry Penguins writers represent the Australian outcrop of a literary fashion prominent in England and America, a distinctive feature of which seemed to us to render its devotees insensible of its absurdity...