Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning in Butte, Mont, a policeman strolling his beat spied a man named William Mahan whom he had once arrested for bank robbery. As he approached, the man began to run. The policeman lost his quarry over a back fence and roof top. But in the Ford sedan which the man had deserted were found $15,155 worth of Weyerhaeuser ransom bills. All roads leading from Butte were promptly bottled...
William Mahan, 32, known as a dangerous bank robber, had been paroled after a conviction in 1924, later escaped after serving seven years of a 20-year prison sentence in Boise, Idaho...
...dredging was done on Georges Bank, about 120 miles east of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, under the direction of Henry C. Stetson, Research Associate in Palaeontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology. The dredging work will be continued this summer in the Hudson River submarine channel off New York Harbor and in the submarine valleys off the Maryland coast...
Fossils taken by the expedition from the sides of the Georges Bank valleys which extend more than a mile below sea level on the edge of the continental shelf, indicate that the last major crustal movement of the North Atlantic coast of America occurred since the Upper Cretaceous period, 105,000,000 years ago, and possibly since the Miocene age, 30,000,000 years...
These ocean valleys are now more than 6000 feet below sea level in their greatest depths on Georges Bank. An uplift sufficient to bring these valleys above present sea level implies Alpine heights for the highlands of New England and New York and a high plateau for the rest of this region. A cliff about 7000 feet high must have extended along the New England coast in those days...