Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...producers gathered to try to avert "chaos" in the industry. Reason: wholesale prices were down to 30? a pound, yet retail prices were still as high as when wholesalers got 50? a pound. Most poultry raisers feared that the high prices and slackened retail buying would soon push the bottom out of the market...
...herrings and thus makes reasonable sense at the fadeout. Detective Montgomery is hired by a glamorous crime-fiction editor (Audrey Totter) to track down the missing wife of her publisher-boss (Leon Ames). The lady of the title never appears in the film because she is dead at the bottom of a lake. Before Montgomery finally catches up with the killer-and with love-he has bulled his way through brass knuckles, a moldy jail, various sinister strangers, venal policemen, five homicides...
Frank Henderson, a prospector who had arranged to meet his partner, John Patterson, in the valley last summer, never found him. But Henderson came out of the valley with 30 ounces of go'd which he said he picked up "coarse and free on the bottom of a creek and strung out in quartz along the cliffs...
...ZoBell has busied himself for years with the microflora of oil strata, including sea-bottom muds where oil is thought to be formed. His original idea was to study how bacteria modify crude oil (TIME, Dec. 17, 1945). But in 1943, he found in sea mud a comma-shaped bacterium which he named (he was only 38 at the time, and feeling in the pink) desulphovibrio halo-hydrocarbonoclasticus. He put it in a test tube filled with material to simulate a limestone oilsand. Four days later, oil bubbled out of the test tube's mouth. A little later...
...theory won fairly wide acceptance, but it was not checked conclusively until the Navy decided to explode two atomic bombs at Bikini Atoll last year. During the preliminary survey, scientists mapped the underground structure of the atoll by seismic methods: 126 depth charges exploded at various points on the bottom of the lagoon sent waves through the coral and underlying material. The denser the medium, the faster such waves travel. By measuring how long the waves took to reach listening instruments, the Navy's scientists could estimate the density of the rock at various depths (see chart...