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Having narrowly escaped permanent freezing by the vetoed Fulmer bill (TIME, Aug.11), the vast U.S. cotton surplus last week began to melt, sent a glacial trickle towards a potentially vast war market. The Department of Agriculture announced that 1,500,000 bales of Government-owned, 1937-crop cotton are now available for export at 13¼ a lb., 4? below the current market price...
...Nichols, called "One Hundred Per Cent" because of his policy of keeping his First National Bank of Englewood, Ill. on a 100% liquid basis, hated the New Deal with a glacial hate. To depositors he said: "Go bury your money in a tomato can in your vegetable garden." He quit making loans, spurned new checking accounts, wrote down $24,000 of Federal Reserve stock to 10?, and siphoned out of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank some $2,500,000-most of his bank's reserve-which he stuffed in deposit boxes. Increasingly bitter and violent about the New Deal...
Mind evolves. Date of these cave paintings is about 30,000 B.C.-the Paleolithic or Early Stone Age. It was a glacial epoch: the last continental ice sheet, retreating from northern Germany and Britain, still covered Scandinavia. The Alpine and Pyrenean glaciers shouldered far out into the adjoining plains; all Europe was cold, ranged over by reindeer, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses (see cut, p. 50). Here, arriving probably by migration from North Africa, homo sapiens first appeared in Europe. The Cro-Magnon race inherited or seized the valleys of the small-brained, beetle-browed, long-armed, chinless and nigh speechless homo...
Starting Saturday morning, members of the coaching staff; squad, launch drivers, and managers set about sounding the glacial material which all winter has concealed the Charles' murky waters, downstream on M.I.T., whose oarsmen already have a month's practice behind them...
...frequent concentrators who was lured into the field by Mather's Geology 1 lectures, you'll find especially interesting his discourses on glacial geology, 5, and on petroleum, 17. They are delightful, if only because Mather is Mather...