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Forthright Columnist Raymond Clapper lifted a lonely voice against Mr. McNutt's taking off: "Underground scandal of Washington . . . slow-motion assassination . . . major campaign atrocity . . . torture . . . poison-gas rumors . . . [Treasury] investigation about as secret as Mr. Roosevelt's celebrated cigaret-holder . . . crucifying...
...presidential campaign will be like an ice-berg, nine-tenths underground," Max Lerner, professor of Political Science at Williams College, predicted in a talk last night in the Adams House dining hall after analyzing the "new wave of reaction and intolerance flooding the country...
...hurried Candidate Dewey, to Salt Lake City, where Republicans were cordial to the point of frenzy; to the Snake River Valley of Idaho, where he lauded the independence of homegrown cooperatives; to Boise past the irrigation projects, the forest reserves, the oil reserves, the region of Thousand Springs, where underground rivers pour from the cliffs in enough volume to provide water for all the cities of the U. S. ("Here in our own America we have the manpower, the wealth, the natural resources, the genius to invent and create. We have the industrial skill to release that ever-flowing stream...
...Geophysical prospecting for oil (recording the underground travels of artificial, explosion-made earthquakes) is relatively new in petroleum technology; geochemical prospecting is newer still. The geochemists pick up samples of the surface soil at spaced intervals, e. g., every tenth of a mile, and analyze them for significant hydrocarbons. An American Chemical Society publication declared that geochemical prospecting shows promise of being a more certain test for underground oil than artificial earthquake analysis...
...eight hours one night shells rained on the Finnish defense works while the Finns burrowed into their underground shelters. As dawn broke the barrage stopped and silence hung over the isthmus...