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...southern France. Then he ran an office-equipment firm in Paris, but the passion was still with him. Last year he was a member of an expedition which had set up a new spelunking record: 1,168 feet in vertical descent into the earth's crust...
...pits, while mechanics hastily switched a propeller to Slo-mo IV from her sister boat, one grease-monkey advised handsome Slo-mo IV Driver Stanley (Dollar Steamship Line) Dollar: "Remember, the lead is everything." Dollar roared out to challenge Miss Pepsi for the front spot. Suddenly the trailing Such Crust IV, a carbon copy of the Slo-mos, exploded in a flash of brilliant orange flame. A Coast Guardsman dived in and rescued her driver, "Wild Bill" Cantrell, who was severely burned. Then Miss Pepsi, by now the hot favorite and in a slim lead, went dead in the water...
...theory supported by geologists, who are aware of the continual upthrusting of the earth's crust in India's lofty Himalayan range...
...planes would give Navy air a much-needed shot in the arm. Today the Navy has only a thin crust of modern planes, and too many of its squadrons still fly obsolete World War II models. Current production is so slow that it cannot even make up the deficit in Korean losses, training accidents, and normal wear & tear. The situation is so bad, said Floberg, that the Navy actually has 1,000 planes fewer than it did 20 months ago when the Korean war began...
...meantime, Krilium may prove the answer to many erosion problems. When it is sprayed or dusted on bare soil, but not mixed in, it binds the surface particles into a porous, crumbly crust. Even on steep slopes, rain has little effect on it. The Krilium-bound soil holds firm; the run-off water is clear. Another use: when dusted on baseball diamonds and tennis courts, it allows them to be used much sooner after a rain...