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...Lome township, Ontario, Canada, William Minkinen, 55, leaped from a high rock into Vermillion River, slashing his throat with & knife in his right hand, holding a lighted stick of dynamite in his left. The cut was superficial, the explosion blew off his left hand. William Minkinen died of drowning...
Alterations in the terms of the Rock seller Foundation grant supporting the Committee on Research in the Social Sciences, representing a slight decrease over the previous two years, were announced yesterday by John D. Black, professor of Economics and chairman of the committee...
Such an attitude is typical of the man who as President, while our foreign trade came crashing down to rock bottom, said that tariff walls cannot be made too high. It is also typical of the American superstition that a high standard of living depends upon a favorable balance of trade. Although it is almost a truism that American prosperity depends upon Europe's having enough gold stocks to keep her currencies somewhere near stability, the United States continues to believe in a mulish manner that this country must sell the world more and more and buy less and less...
...previously known, from dredged-up samples, that the surface of the Shelf was rock laid down by sedimentation in the Cretaceous era, 70,000,000 to 100,000,000 years ago. With no knowledge of how deep this layer was, it was thought that it thinned out eastward, exposing at or near the edge of the Shelf the basic granite foundation of the North American continent, some 1,000,000,000 years old. Dr. Ewing's twitchy seismograph needles now told him how thick the sedimentary layer was. Near the shore the thickness...
...great number of soundings with the old-fashioned line & sinker, more recently with the echo sounder, have disclosed that contour to oceanographers. Dr. Field wanted to know what lay beneath that bottom. I occurred to him to use the "artificial" earthquake method by which oil prospectors map subterranean rock structures. This involves setting off charges of dynamite, measuring the time required for the earth ripples to reach a seismograph planted some distance away, studying the wavy lines on the seismograph record (TIME. Nov. 4). This set-up is called a geophone. Transplanting it to the sea floor and making...