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Last week Northwest powermen thought they had one answer to the problem. They proposed a huge, international program that could serve as a model for developing the entire Columbia Basin. The project: a dam and power network at Mica Creek, B.C. (see map) that would back up twice as much water as Grand Coulee Dam, serve Canada and the U.S. with a whopping 3,000,000 kw. of new power...
They listen to some of the strangest and loveliest music ever played since jazz was born. They listen in garish cellars and august concert halls. They listened last summer in Los Angeles' Zardi's, last month in Boston's Storyville and Manhattan's Basin Street, and a fortnight ago they listened and cheered him in Carnegie Hall. Last week they listened in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis as the Brubeck Quartet swung through the Midwest (as part of a jazz-concert package). Not everybody likes Brubeck's intense, quiet music; a lot of Bourbon drinkers...
These are very lively relics of a U.S. past that has died in most other parts of the West. But the Inland Empire is no relic; harder perhaps than any other region, it is riding toward the future. In the Columbia Basin, settlers are filling up newly irrigated farm lands. Power from McNary, Hungry Horse and other dams is attracting new industry and population to the cities. Long an inland colony, the Inland Empire is getting ready to live up to its proud name...
Deep in the Williston Basin at Mandan, N. Dak. last week, Standard Oil of Indiana started production at the basin's first oil refinery, a $30 million giant that was as welcome to North Dakota as the first railroad. At capacity, Standard Oil's refinery will crack 30,000 bbls. of crude oil a day, give the Williston Basin its first local outlet for its oil. Though the basin holds one of the biggest oil pools in the U.S., its development has been hampered by lack of means to get the oil to market. The 445 wells already...
...bottom of the ocean. Most of the sediment, he thinks, was carried down in remote geological ages. The turbidity currents probably started near land. They cut deep gorges (e.g., the famous Hudson Canyon) in the continental slopes and dumped their silt and sand in deep basins in the irregular ocean bottom. When the nearest basin was full, the mud-river ran across it just as a river would do on dry land, and started to fill the next basin. The canyon just found east of Philadelphia is probably cut in the sediment of a filled-up basin...