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...Robert Metcalf first stumbled on the green-stained rocks of the Morenci bed 70 years ago. Its exposed ore was so rich it was "quarried rather than mined." But by 1932, after yielding 1,800,000,000 lb. of copper, the high-grade open veins were played out, the underground low-grade (1.06%) ore too costly to work for a 6? copper market. Morenci became another ghost town...
...from a nearby yard. He tinkered with carpenter's tools. He kept two dogs, against the school rules, and walked them at night with his friend, the town detective. Once he manufactured a time bomb to blow out a well bottom which was supposed to lead to an underground passage. When he peered down the well to see why the bomb didn't go off, it did, and young Churchill's face was badly scorched. In his last school year he won the Public Schools Fencing Competition at Aldershot...
...revolt against Adolf Hitler was not one movement, but many. In Yugoslavia it was hot, open civil war, abetted by traditional Balkan Pan-Slavic sympathies. Soviet Russia even spared "a certain number" of bombers to aid the insurgents. In Czecho-Slovakia it was the discovered sabotage of highly organized underground rebels as the high rank of many of the condemned suggested. Widespread in Europe were examples of that single zealotry of which Paul Collette was the prime symbol...
...about 1920 in Houston and Dallas by Humble Oil and Refining Co., Rio Bravo Oil Co., Atlantic Refining Co. In 20 years micropaleontology has become a favorite course of budding geologists because of the jobs it offers. An expert Texas micropaleontologist can diagnose the age and character of 100 underground samples a day, making a geological index of 3,000 to 4,000 feet of drilling. In California, where petroleum signs are more complex, scientists must identify about 100 types of fossils in each sample, and analysis is far slower. All told, some 500 fossil experts are hired by Gulf...
...Twenty-six German Confessiona Church leaders who aided candidates fo the ministry in underground seminaries have been jailed...