Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete magnetic survey of the whole Meteor Crater area. Mr. Lundberg is president of his own company in Toronto, but he is working at present for someone else, who prefers to remain anonymous. Using sensitive variometers (containing magnetic needles responding to large masses of metal), he went over the ground, made a "magnetic profile." This showed two humps several hundred feet southwest of the rim, the larger covering an area 2,000 by 1,500 ft. He believes that the meteoritic clumps corresponding to these humps can be reached by sinking a shaft straight down through rock undisturbed...
Berlin's Tempelhofer Feld, a thousand-acre open space, long the Fatherland's proudest parade ground, was made over into Europe's crack airport five years after the War. Fifteen minutes' taxi ride away is the heart of the German capital, swank hotels like the Kaiserhof, Adlon, Esplanade. Though still one of the most modern airports in the world Tempel-hofer's buildings last week were ready for destruction to make way for an even more colossal port. It is calculated to serve the biggest commercial planes of the century ahead, and to function...
...omnipresent Goodyear blimp, airline pilots last year protested to the Bureau of Air Commerce against Washington airport's further use for big, modern transports, threatened to quit landing there in 60 days. This speeded bills to enlarge the port, which were vetoed by President Roosevelt on the ground that no private concern should own the Capital's airport. Threatened with loss of their jobs, pilots gave in, still uneasily use the field. Before last session's Congress Vermont's Republican Representative Charles A. Plumley thundered, "Washington-Hoover Airport is . . . both a public menace and a national...
...year ago there was ground for concern that a too rapid rise in the prices of some commodities was encouraging a speculative boom. During the past six months, on the other hand, the general price level and industrial activity have been declining. Government policy must be directed to reversing this deflationary trend...
Officials of Chicago's suburban Des Plaines Valley Mosquito Abatement District know the difference between a mosquito drainage ditch and a hole in the ground. Furthermore, they prefer the hole. In a century-old pestilent swamp in Palos Park one afternoon last week they blasted out a vast sump, of which they planned to make a mosquito-proof "wildlife oasis." If mosquito larvae in the abaters' sump don't watch out, the bladderwort plant will get them. If insectivorous plants don't get them, whirligig beetles, back swimmers, dragonfly nymphs and top-water minnows will. Ditches...