Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 100 miles southeast of Sandy Hook one day last fortnight the master of the Oceanographer and his officers gathered in the chartroom, as wide-eyed as though they were actually witnessing an undersea marvel. This U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey ship is equipped with the latest type of echo-recorder, a device which automatically measures the depth of water by the time required for a sound to travel to the bottom and bounce back. The depth appears continuously on a dial and the profile of the sea floor is translated to a chart. Scrawled before the Oceanographer...
...Oceanographer's survey reveals that the old Hudson valley continued for 130 miles southeast of Sandy Hook. The valley was only a few fathoms deeper than its banks for the first 85 miles. At that point the present sounding is 600 ft. Then the river began to cut deeper. Few miles farther on the gorge is 2,400 ft. deep, eight miles wide, and its bottom is 3.000 ft. below present sea level. Greatest depth of the gorge from brink to bottom is 3.600 ft., which beats Colorado's Royal Gorge by 1,000 ft. It becomes shallower...
...efficient grafting gangsters, its people dolts. Spivak quotes an anonymous U. S. businessman as charging Nazi officials with systematic shakedowns of business for "protection" against boycotts. Espionage is carried to the point of ingenious Dictaphone-telephones which record conversations within a room even when the telephone is on the hook...
North China customs receipts dropped 40% in the past three months, but inter nationally more important was the fresh Japanese threat to British trade and British loans guaranteed by Chinese customs collections. In Tientsin last week was hulking, hook-nosed Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the British Government since 1932. Around to Japanese Consul General Shigeru Kawagoe (now Ambassador) he rushed to demand the end of Japanese smuggling into North China. Sucking his teeth politely, Consul General Kawagoe countered with comments on the thriving smuggling trade from British Hongkong to Canton...
Five years ago Britain's Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith declared that Nature keeps her human orchard healthy by pruning, that war is her pruning hook...