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...forces," said Dr. Heim, "which have waved, lifted, folded, crumpled, thrust and faulted the earth's crust . . . seem to be regarded as the result of the earth's energetic reserve. If so, each crustal movement should mean a lessening of the total reserve of earth's energy, so that succeeding . . . movements should be smaller than earlier ones. . . . This does not seem to be borne out by the facts...
...underground lake of oil, 32 miles long and three miles wide. Wildcatters and great oil companies had soon planted 10.000 derricks over it, drilled 10,000 shafts 3,600 ft. deep to tap the subterranean flood. As the oil spouted through 10,000 pinholes in the earth's crust it greased the skids of oil prices. Tighter & tighter the industry drew its proration rules but prices fell to 10?. Then the Governors of Oklahoma and Texas shut down the wells with State troops until new and stronger prorationing measures should be put in effect. The U. S. consumes...
...Sachs has devoted to anecdotes and brief descriptions of the multitude of singular personalities that collected in the Paris of illusion and disillusion after the great war. There appear Erick Satle, that erratic genius of the piano, whose windows were so dirty "the sun never pierced their thick grey crust," and Paul Vallery, the poet, Andre Gide with his reserved, cruelly analytical "Nouvelle Revue Francaise," and Raymond Radeguet sitting every evening at the Boeuf surle Toit and drinking with-out moving his "stubborn eyelids." There is chirico, the Surrealist, and Maurice Rostand, who lived with his mother in haughty, respectable...
...Most officials deny any famine exists, but a few minutes following one such denial in a train I chanced to throw away a stale piece of my private supply of bread. Like a shot a peasant dived to the floor, grabbed the crust and devoured it. The same performance was repeated later with an orange peel. Even transport and G. P. U. officers warned me against traveling over the countryside at night because of the numbers of starving, desperate men. . . . A foreign expert who returned from Kazakstan told me that 1,000,000 of the 5,000,000 of inhabitants...
...earth, a deep of 44,000 ft. (8.33 mi.) just north of Puerto Rico. Also off Puerto Rico is the Nares Deep (27,972 ft., or 5.30 mi.), greatest previously known hole in the Atlantic.* Both deeps lie in a lively seismic zone, indicate how the earth's crust warps and cracks...