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...Bausch & Lomb engine does its work in an underground, air-conditioned hideout cut deep into bedrock and fanatically guarded against distracting intrusions. No one may approach it while it is at work; the heat of one man's body might raise the temperature enough to ruin the job. There must be no vibration or fluctuations of power supply, so most of the work on the latest grating was done while the company's plant was shut down for its annual vacation...
...point out that the Houses, the Business School, and Soldiers Field are built upon filled in ground, over what used to be the Charles River. While the foundations of all these buildings reach below this soft ground into glacial residue material underneath, they are not as earthquake-resistant as bedrock and other base materials...
Bonn Doing Well. All is not strawberries & cream, however. Western Germany's prosperity still rests on a bedrock of $400 million annual U.S. aid. The housing shortage is still acute, and so is the economic plight of the war victims. In a camp, just beyond Bonn itself, 50 bombed-out families live like animals. Across the land, there are well over a million people unemployed. Conspicuous consumption by the wealthy (encouraged by a tax system that allows huge exemptions for "business expenses") makes for glaring contrasts with poverty...
Decadent Peoples? The trip began dramatically at the yawning, man-made canyons of the Mesabi iron-ore range, where miners were washing down bedrock with hoses to extract the shrinking deposits of ore. The Congressmen heard estimates that the Mesabi's reserves would last as little as five years longer. They found Mesabi mining men unanimously convinced that the seaway is necessary to bring Labrador ore to U.S. steel mills. Said Major General Lewis Pick, U.S. Army chief of engineers,* who accompanied the Congressmen: "Any man who opposes this undertaking should prepare to make peace with his Maker...
...first, Ben Reese was uncomfortable in the M.E.'s high-backed chair. ("I know that even the men on the staff felt they were getting a police court managing editor," he later admitted.) But Reese was a bedrock newsman, who had started out at $8 a week on the Chief in home-town Hobart, Mo., worked on a handful of other papers before he joined the P-D in 1913. He was smart enough to capitalize on talents far different from Bovard...