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...Here We Are!" Back in the Permian (pre-dinosaur) period, 200 million years ago, the south central part of the U.S. and much of the present Gulf of Mexico was covered by a shallow sea, connected with the open ocean by an even shallower strait. The climate must have been hot and dry, and the sea evaporated rapidly, drawing fresh salt water in through the strait. Its brine became saturated and deposited crystalline salt, which eventually formed a bed thousands of feet thick...
Damned Sea. Ley also likes hydraulic engineering that works in reverse. If the Red Sea, for instance, were dammed at the Strait of Bab El Mandeb (its southern extremity) and the Suez Canal were closed, its level would fall through evaporation at a rate of more than 12 ft. a year. After the sea had sunk 50 ft., the water of the Indian Ocean, flowing into it through turbines, would generate as much electricity per day as 200,000 tons of coal. The biggest such project is damming the Mediterranean at the Strait of Gibraltar. In a century its level...
...Meeting in New York, the strait-laced U.S. Lawn Tennis Association loosened amateur standards enough to conform with International Lawn Tennis Federation rules. Main changes: amateurs (beginning at 21 instead of 35) may now work for sporting-goods firms, may teach tennis in schools and colleges if employed as regular faculty members...
Geologists have suggested that certain land mass configurations cause the glaciers. If, for an example, the Being Strait were to sink a few thousand feet, the Japanese current could pass through to melt the Arctic pack ice, and submerge the lower parts of all continents. Unfortunately for this theory, John Wolback points out that the four most recent glaciers have grown and died since the last significant distortion of the earth's crust...
...Pacific, the destroyers struck with all their weapons-depth charges, torpedoes, guns-and realized all their manifold possibilities as warships. In the night Battle of Surigao Strait, they even had a chance of fighting in the old textbook fashion. Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf, cruising at the northern end of the strait with the U.S.'s older battleships, learned that a big Japanese force, including two battleships, was headed for the strait from the west to turn the tide in the battle for Leyte. Oldendorf corked up the mouth of the strait with his old battlewagons, sent destroyers...