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Some hundreds or thousands of years before Christopher Columbus, a huge cluster of metallic meteorites-or a small comet-400 or 500 ft. in diameter and weighing millions of tons, entered the Earth's atmosphere over northeastern Canada, plunged southward in a flaming, thundering arc over the Dakotas and Colorado, no doubt scaring thousands of savages almost out of their wits. Coming to Earth in northern Arizona, the monstrous cluster plunged into the desert, converted underground water into steam, hurled huge gobs of earth and stone skyward to fall back into the crater. The main body of the meteorite...
Just west of T. W. A.'s transcontinental stop at Winslow, Meteor Crater is about 4.000 ft. in diameter, 570 ft. deep from the lip of the rim to the bottom. The force of the impact raised the crater's lip 120 ft. 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...
...someone else, who prefers to remain anonymous. Using sensitive variometers (containing magnetic needles responding to large masses of metal), he went over the ground, made a "magnetic profile." This showed two humps several hundred feet southwest of the rim, the larger covering an area 2,000 by 1,500 ft. He believes that the meteoritic clumps corresponding to these humps can be reached by sinking a shaft straight down through rock undisturbed by the meteorite's passage, then drifting sidewise through the troublesome watery strata which were broken by the impact. Even if the meteoritic bodies weigh no more...
...were ready for destruction to make way for an even more colossal port. It is calculated to serve the biggest commercial planes of the century ahead, and to function as a centre of all aviation in Germany. At one end of a surfaced, oval landing field, with 10,000-ft. runways, will curve a full mile of administration buildings, restaurants, hangars...
Fortnight ago Senator Robert Johns Bulkley of Ohio, facing a primary fight against a hard roads ex-Governor this August, proposed a network of 100 ft. express highways which would avoid towns and cities, shoot directly across and up & down the U. S. There were to be seven North-South routes, three transcontinental. Total cost: $8,000,000,000, to be met in 16 years by tolls and leases of concession privileges along the way. Last week in the House, Alabama's Representative Henry B. Steagall, more famed for banking than transportation legislation, introduced a companion measure...