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Also playing at the Exeter is "Broken Journey," a product of J. Arthur Rank's movies to date. A handful of peculiar characters crash in a transcontinental plane high atop a glacier. Before they are rescued, they have driven each other and the audience crazy. The only worthwhile acting is that of obese Francis L. Sullivan whose jowls vibrate as he sings operatic selections for his hungry fellow travellers. Don't rush to catch the beginning of this film because nothing much happens in the first hour and a half...
...from the earth, would be stopped by the cloud and retained. Thus the weather would be come warmer, the proper weather for an ice age. More water would evaporate from the earth and fall at the poles as snow, compress itself into ice and start moving as a glacier...
There are two theories, said Dr. Colbert, of how the molar may have got so far from land, 1) The dead mastodon, enclosed in a block of ice, may have drifted down the Hudson-then a great, glacier-fed river. Some geologists believe that during the Pleistocene Age the ocean was lower because the glaciers that covered much of the land locked up so much water. So 2) the mastodon may have walked to the scallop bank on its own big feet...
Compressed into 75 feet of debris were proofs of slow climatic changes as the great glacier to the north advanced or receded. During one long period the cave dwellers ate snails, heaping the empty shells around the dinner table. At another, the ancient hunters fed their families on rhinoceros meat. Father Ewing believes that the cave deposits give an accurate chronology of climate and cultural changes in the ancient Near East...
Last week, with the ice gone at last from the flat water downstream, ships of many nations furrowed the glacier-carved Saguenay. Inbound, most of them carried cargoes of orange-colored bauxite (aluminum ore) from British Guiana. A few were laden to the Plimsoll mark with cryolite from Greenland, fluorspar from Newfoundland, pitch and coke from the U.S. At Port Alfred on Ha! Ha! Bay,? fine ores were loaded into railroad cars for a 20-mile journey beyond the deep water. The freighters were reloaded with aluminum, in ingots or billets, for the industry of Canada and foreign lands...