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Topaz crystals are an aluminum silicate, formed originally by slow accretion from a hot solution. The crystals are formed ordinarily in "pockets" or hollow spaces in rock masses. Formation of good-sized crystals requires a large pocket in the rocks, and stable external conditions; temperature, for instance, must be constant within a few degrees...
...July, when the Dangu rose to flood, they prepared to take off. With her four giant engines scaring up a bright cloud of fluttering parakeets, the patched Corsair lumbered majestically downstream. Before she rose, there was a disheartening rip and she tore her bottom out on a jagged rock...
...ships to belligerents willing to pay fantastic prices for bottoms to carry their precious foodstuffs and implements of war, collected insurance from Great Britain on chartered ships sunk by submarines and mines. In the lull that peace brought to world shipyards the canny Norwegians rebuilt their merchant marine at rock-bottom prices. Even today 45% of Norway's vessels are less than ten years old-a record no other nation can boast...
...resignation of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, instead referred to the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford. Last week her return to Britain on a stretcher roused such public excitement that the War Office sent soldiers with rifles to keep unauthorized persons off the landing quay at Folkestone. Up in rock-ribbed Scotland the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Patrick Joseph Dollan, snorted: "It is simply disgusting that this attention should be paid to a little flapper who really ought to have her pants spanked instead of getting publicity." When Unity was delayed two days in reaching Folkestone, popular excitement touched fever...
Died. Effie Canning Carlton, 83, old-time song writer and actress, who at 15 wrote the perennially popular tune for the Mother Goose lullaby, Rock-a-Bye Baby, turned many a penny from its royalties; of bronchopneumonia; in Boston, Mass...