Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made a discovery that Grandfather John Watson Foster (President Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State) would find hard to believe: a modern-day Secretary of State has more time for undisturbed thought and concentration aloft in an airplane than he has in his paneled, guarded office in Foggy Bottom...
...Chief Saverio Polito re signed just before the case first broke onto the front pages. A little later, the heat of the case forced the resignation of National Police Chief Tommaso Pavone. But still there were no arrests, and even less effort in the government to get to the bottom of the affair. People began to compare the Montesi case to France's famed I'Affaire Dreyfus...
Magnolia's diving geologists hope to find clues that lead to stratagraphic traps. One possibility: using sea organisms as pointers. The clams, snails and other creatures that now live on the bottom...
...Alexander, Magnolia's exploration chief, four full-fledged geologists and two technicians practiced skin diving until they could pass the Navy's test for frogmen. Then, led by Dr. Daniel Feray, they embarked on the Gulf in a converted shrimp boat, went overboard and flapped along the bottom. Working in water up to 65 ft. deep off eastern Texas, they picked up samples of sediments, gathered sea creatures, e.g., sand dollars and mud-living worms, and studied the growth of marine vegetation. They pursued and captured in glass jars the bubbles of natural gas that rise from...
Gulf are not very different from their fossil ancestors. Each species has its preference for sand, mud or shell bottom. If scientific frogmen learn enough about the modern sea creatures, they may be able to use their forebears in the deep rocks to point where a reef or sand bar (now saturated with oil) lies hidden not far away...