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...previously known, from dredged-up samples, that the surface of the Shelf was rock laid down by sedimentation in the Cretaceous era, 70,000,000 to 100,000,000 years ago. With no knowledge of how deep this layer was, it was thought that it thinned out eastward, exposing at or near the edge of the Shelf the basic granite foundation of the North American continent, some 1,000,000,000 years old. Dr. Ewing's twitchy seismograph needles now told him how thick the sedimentary layer was. Near the shore the thickness...
First Dr. Ewing checked the profile of the well-known Continental Shelf, which slopes gradually eastward from the shoreline for 80 or more miles, ending in a cliff which drops sharply to the deeps. Next Dr. Ewing set about finding what the Shelf was made of. Every day, in good weather and bad, a small boat put off from the ketch, planted explosive containers on the bottom while the seismographs were dropped from the Atlantis. Dull booms rolled up from the abyss...
...South Atlantic route. Last week Normandie's time from Ambrose Lightship to Bishop's Rock was 4 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes, thus decisively disposing of Bremen's 4 day-16 hour-15 minute record (Ambrose Lightship to Cherbourg, a 200-mile longer course) for the eastward crossing. As Normandie neared Havre every house seemed to be flying a bit of the Atlantic's speed blue ribbon which the world's largest ship had won for France. Amid tears, cheers and sirens, the world's fourth largest seaplane, also French, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris...
Meantime, Herbert Hoover, traveling eastward for a little fishing in Vermont, continued to make headlines by running into more Republican friends, including Governor Charles M. Smith; going to Plymouth, standing with bowed head at the grave of Calvin Coolidge...
That paragraph, seemingly clear enough, seemed to be the key-paragraph in the social service report presented last week to the New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church-a body representing all the Methodists eastward of Third Avenue in New York, on Long Island and in Connecticut as far as New Haven. Without much argument the Conference adopted the report. This seemed to mark the Conference as forthright, courageous. It seemed to demonstrate that the New York East Methodists had thoughtfully examined Capitalism, had totally and finally rejected it and were ready to lead their people on toward...