Word: geologist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week at Jackson Mills (Ocean Co.), N. J., one George W. Perry, geologist of Los Angeles, Calif., reluctantly demonstrated to incredulous newspaper reporters the "Perry Mineral Indicator," a tripod apparatus fitted with compass, dials and a brass cylinder like the weight from a grandfather clock, suspended by a silken, tubular thread. Perry claimed that the cylinder contained secret ingredients which caused it to oscillate, gyrate, agitate when in the vicinity of subterraneau oil, even thousands of feet in the earth. He, Perry, was the only living soul that could operate the marvelous machine, which he did by bringing...
Said N. J. State Geologist Henry B. Kummel: "It's all bunk. . . . There's no such thing as a successful machine to locate oil. If there were, it could be 'sold to Sinclair or Standard Oil for a million dollars in five minutes...
...Also last week, there sailed into Manhattan another steamer from South America and Dr. Charles C. Bull, Stevens' cartographer, onetime Harvard footballer, geologist of the Rice expedition, continued, with interruptions by recurrent fits of jungle ague, Stevens' narrative...
David White, senior geologist U. S. Geological Survey...
Shortly after this, just before the tomb was finally sealed to await Dr. Reisner's arrival in Egypt, the New York Times published a Cairo dispatch to the London Times which stated as the opinion of an expert geologist that the tomb was that of Sneferuw...