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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within the last few years a wealth of new information-from seismology, astronomy and nuclear physics-has been brought to bear on the problem. Scientists are beginning to explain why the earth is not too smooth for such land animals as man to live on.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Land from the Depths | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Then, says Urey, the light stone core began to float up through the iron like a tennis ball through molasses. As it approached the surface, land appeared for the first time; the oceans were crowded to one side, as on the third day of biblical creation.* For a while the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Land from the Depths | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Guthman hustled out of the city room with a long-term assignment: to find the truth about Melvin Rader, professor of philosophy at the University of Washington. Before the state legislature's Committee on Un-American Activities in July 1948, Melvin Rader had been labeled a Communist. His accuser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Piecework | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Reporter Guthman, a husky young (30) Purple Heart veteran of the Italian cam paign and a University of Washington graduate who had been covering the Can-well hearings for two years, started his digging by driving to Canyon Creek.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Piecework | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

There, he asked to see the 1938 guest register. It was missing ; it had been "borrowed" by Canwell committee investigators and never returned. But Guthman found an ex-housekeeper who clearly recalled the 1938 visit and added a corroborating detail: Mrs. Rader was pregnant.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Piecework | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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