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...standing up admirably, Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s Industrial Bulletin reported last week, and one stretch near Ithaca, N. Y. came through a pounding by nine inches of rain without visible effect. Developed by Cloyd Delson Looker, research director of International Salt Co., and Heinrich Ries, Cornell University geologist, the treatment makes clay hard like concrete, retards evaporation so that the surface remains moist and firm, provides an almost nonskid track. The cost per mile ($1,200) is about a third that of asphalt, one-twentieth that of concrete...
...correspondents covering the war is high-strung, sagacious Karl von Wiegand of Universal Service, who postponed writing his memoirs to go to Ethiopia. Assisting him is Wynant Davis Hubbard, onetime (1919-20) Harvard tackle, who in 35 years has been a miner, missionary, cartographer, plumber, dentist, undertaker, explorer, geologist, big-game hunter, animal psychologist, author, cineman, scientist...
Bumptious Geologist Kirtley Fletcher Mather had been speaking on "The Twilight of Democracy" at the opening of an adult education centre. Among the adults present was Representative Thomas Dorgan, author of the Massachusetts teachers' oath law. In the course of a hot plat-form-to-floor argument, Professor Mather called the law unconstitutional, stoutly announced he would sign no oath. By the time Dr. Conant reached Cambridge, Professor Mather and a quickly rallied bloc of the faculty were champing to carry the case to the Supreme Court...
WALDEMAR LINDGREN: A geologist to whom all men turn for knowledge of the metallic secrets hidden in the rock...
...possible ground where they could carry on experiments to be conducted for six months, the group chose the plateau at the edge of Tibet, which they could reach from India. The site of the camp will be near the shore of Lake Tso-Moriri, recently surveyed by a Yale geologist, at altitudes of from 17,000 to 22,000 feet. Starting from Bombay the expedition will go north through Kashmir and 400 miles across passes as high as 17,000 feet...