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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above the surrounding plain. The amount of weathering and other evidence in the bowl indicate that it was formed not less than 700 years ago and not more than 5,000 years. The Indians of the region have a legend that one of their gods descended to Earth at the spot in a pillar of fire. To this day they will not use or carry away the metallic meteorites which have been found in abundance in and near the crater. These fragments, ranging from a few ounces to 1,400 lb., constitute the majority of the metallic meteorites recovered anywhere...
Atop the buildings will be tiers of seats for 100,000 spectators at air shows. Conceived by Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler, the designs have been drawn by Air Ministry Architect Dr. Ernst Sagebiel, who plans not only to lay out the biggest paved space on earth but to demolish church steeples, chimneys, high tension towers for miles around...
...motorist rides on some 200.000 miles of hard-surfaced roads, one-fifth of the earth's total. Nevertheless, last week no less than three plans for another 17,000 miles of U. S. "super highways" were under serious Congressional consideration. In fact, under the pressure of Depression II, the approaching national primaries and the old, old political appetite for pork, these plans were even getting serious consideration at the White House...
...ground no single adult mosquito will fly-for which the valley's residents may thank their itching stars, for a single female mosquito can beget in a single season 75 times as many bloodthirsty offspring as there are human beings to bite on the face of the earth...
...Selznick has no child stars on his own roster, and had no wish to borrow and boost one under contract to someone else. When he put Tom Sawyer on his schedule two years ago, he started a nationwide hunt that viewed 25,000 children before it ran to earth in St. Raymond's Parochial School in New York's Bronx. There a year ago Scout Oscar Serlin spotted curly-headed, freckled Tommy Kelly, an Irish lad of twelve, with an angelic face and mischievous eyes...