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...land under the sea near Huntington Beach.* A legislative headache in California for years, this strip of tideland holds natural gas and oil worth about $500,000,000. At one time the State tried leasing it to oil companies which did their drilling from piers built out through the surf. Opposition came not from fishermen but from bathers who found oil scum all over their beaches. They raised such a hullabaloo that a law was passed forbidding all tideland drilling. Then in 1933 oil engineers devised a new method of drilling called "whip-stocking," which enabled oil companies to drill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Undersea Oil | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...thought best. Property damage: $5,000,000. Indiana. Evansville, Funnyman Joe Cook's hometown, was made base of the Coast Guard's relief forces. While 40 horses were rescued from the Dade Park race track, amphibians roared in from the Atlantic coast and radio-equipped surf boats arrived from the Chicago station. Indianapolis diked itself in after a body was seen floating down the White River. Kentucky's Green, Kentucky and other rivers, fed by continuing downpours, were still rising at week's end. Louisville was the hardest hit city in the whole flood area. Sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell & High Water | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...shots: An expert logger nonchalantly retrieving a water bottle from the notch in a fir tree, just as the notch closes when the tree falls; the timber country color photographed from the air, with fir-covered mountains spread out to blue horizons in the pattern of enormous deep-green surf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...back coaching at Pillsbury Academy. As head coach at Tulane, he made the Green Wall surf that roared over the U.S.A. every fall. When he returned to Minneapolis to coach the Gophers in part his problem was to turn powerful Norsemen thinkers on the field. Graying, quiet, Bernie Bierman does not remember a time his life wasn't certain around football, except possible his first six years in Springfield, Minn., before he had been taught to distinguish a football from a rattle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 11/28/1936 | See Source »

...photography department removed the plug, brought a cinecamera up close to the hole, took pictures of what was going on in the steer's stomach. The film clearly showed that digestion in a cow's stomach is continuous. Semiliquid food surged through in periodic waves like surf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Veterinarians | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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