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...Central Alaska last week came an exciting story. The Black Rapids Glacier, long dying in its valley 125 miles south of Fairbanks, had come to life. Its mile-and-a-quarter face was shoving toward the Delta River and the Richardson Highway (sole motor road from Fairbanks to the coast), rearing ice crests to 500 ft., breaking off great land icebergs which tumbled thunderously ahead onto the mossy valley floor...
...groove, causing it to move. Glacialist Washburn explained that glaciers move because of pressure in their catchment basins at their sources. Alaska's glaciers are survivals of the ice age on the North American continent. Washburn believes that Alaska's glaciers are dwindling, will eventually disappear. The Black Rapids Glacier is a case in point...
...hope to expect, are inadequate to compensate. This wave motion has a suction effect, drags a lot of ice with it, thins the glacier over its length. When the impulse has expended itself, there follows a period of very rapid shrinkage at the foot of the glacier. Black Rapids Glacier may continue to move for six months to two years. Then it will recede. Five years hence it will have dwindled five miles back up its valley...
...Geologist Ernest N. Patty at Fairbanks declared this week that if the Black Rapids Glacier is moving as reported, it is traveling 220 ft. per day, a world record. Attempting to find the facts, Dean James H. Hance of the Territorial School of Mines flew to the glacier, due to winds could make no landing, no close aerial inspection of the glacier; found only that "it apparently has advanced a long distance...
...most graceful aspects of 20th-century industrialism is the practice of a trade group hiring an impeccable individual to sponsor it at the court of public opinion. Like baseball after the "Black Sox" scandal and the cinema following the Arbuckle case, last week the U. S. liquor business, acutely aware that it exists by sufferance, acquired a highly respectable front man. For a reputed $50,000 a year, William Forbes Morgan became a part of the Distilled Spirits Institute's "program for the enlargement of the scope of ... activities . . . with special reference to a broader policy of public relations...