Word: geologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your reference about my conviction is apt to give an incorrect impression. It is a fact that I was for several years engaged as a geologist to find potential oil fields in Wyoming. The acreage thus acquired was placed into a developing company, which is today a highly successful corporation, bearing my name. It is a fact that I entered Texas in the boom days at the end of the war. It is a fact that I was tried and convicted for overstating potential values in prospective oil fields. It is a fact that I was sent to prison...
...from acting as a drainage ditch to carry off water to a depth of 70 ft. below the present water table? Army engineers confidently say they will plug up the leaks, prevent the drainage, not lower the water except in wells close to the canal. Florida's state geologist declared that he could not see why the effects would be limited to areas close to the canal. In places the fresh water had in late years already shown signs of failing and salt water was taking its place. Truck farmers and fruit growers rose in alarm. They formed...
...shipping companies declaring that, even if the canal is free, they will not use it because the expense and trouble of employing canal pilots, the risk of damage to ships in transit and increased costs of insurance would outweigh the saving in time. To show that Florida's geologist was not alone in his opinion, Senator Vandenberg next produced a letter by Harry Slattery, personal assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Said the letter: "Unless the canal could be effectively sealed throughout many miles of its course, a procedure presenting difficulties that appear to be practically insurmountable...
When the Massachusetts Legislature decided to require an oath of loyalty from every teacher in the State, a host of angry professors, led by impulsive Harvard Geologist Kirtley Mather, galloped out to do battle for the cause of academic freedom (TIME, Oct. 19). Because their universities dared not follow, the professors presently scampered back, took their oaths...
...Alfred Church Lane, 72, Tufts lost a distinguished geologist, onetime president of the Geological Society of America. Old Dr. Lane, well past the retirement age and eligible for a pension, observed that his fellow casualty ''has much more at stake." But Economist Earl Micajah Winslow, 39, a Mayflower descendant and a Quaker, will probably be welcomed as a martyr on the faculty of any university in the 22 states which have no teachers' oath...