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...Gamble. Geologists have long known of the vast iron ore riches in the trough straddling the border of Quebec and Labrador. When Dominion Geologist A. P. Low talked about the deposits 50 years ago, Mesabi was just coming into its own, and nobody was interested in the subArctic wilderness. In 1937, when Quebec Geologist Joe Retty came out of Ungava with a more detailed report of high-grade iron ore, Mesabi was still king. But as war demand cut deep into Mesabi, Retty's reports became more interesting. By 1942 Hollinger President Jules Timmins was ready to gamble...
...Boston last week, Ginn & Co., largest publisher of schoolbooks in the U.S., rushed a revision of its bestselling World Geography by Geologist John Hodgdon Bradley. Texas, which would use 10,000 copies of the book, had objected to some of the nice things Bradley (an exmarine) had to say about Russia, when he wrote the book in 1945. The new World Geography for Texas, with the author's consent, would call Russia the "biggest" instead of the "greatest" nation in Europe, reduce the Soviet government's achievements from "mighty" to "considerable," downgrade Russia's claim to warm...
...order of the Honorable Secretary of War . . . Major Long had been instructed to explore the country from the Missouri westward to the Rocky Mountains to the source of the River Platte and thence by way of the Arkansas and Red Rivers to the Mississippi. Dr. James became botanist, geologist and surgeon . . . They were particularly desirous of visiting what Pike called the highest peak of the mountains, which now bears the name of that distinguished explorer and soldier. Its summit had been reported inaccessible. A detachment of the party, however, conducted by Dr. James, went to the top on the 13th...
...Coat. The following day the job went to Wong. Nanking was startled. But, after chewing over the record of tiny, chain-smoking Geologist Wong, Chinese nodded their heads. The new Premier was transcendentally honest-in his first 20 years of public service he had never even owjied a fur coat. When, finally, he had bought a sheepskin one (with cat's-fur collar), he had kept it only two days, then given it to his father. And he was an able administrator...
Although French archaeologists have recently dug up considerable quantities of stone tools and weapons, the Bryan-Movius expedition will mark the first time that a geologist and an archaeologist have teamed up in this region in an effort to relate prehistoric remains of a western European race to a definite period in the history of the world...