Word: masseli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-two million eggs, flounder eggs, traveled in a baggage car last week from Woods Hole, Mass., where the Government maintains a fish hatchery, to Jamaica Bay, L. I. There they were dumped into the coast waters to hatch and grow. In three years, the new flounders will be big enough to catch and eat. The ocean around New York Harbor is too filthy for flounders to breed naturally...
...formed Meteor Crater (also called Coon Butte) about two miles east of Canyon Diablo. That meteorite ploughed a circular hole 4,000 ft. in diameter. 600 ft. deep, and threw up a rim 150 ft. above the surrounding plain. For years miners have been trying to locate its buried mass, for the sake of its iron and nickel...
Even larger must be the mass that struck the-Province of Yenisei, Siberia, in 1908. The place had been a forest. It is now a bare area churned up for several miles. Russian scientists, led by L.A. Kulik, tried vainly to dig up even fragments of the meteorite. They were buried too deeply. This year the Russians may explore again...
...been compounded. A billion or more years ago, according to the planetesimal theory of the late Geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (TIME, Nov. 26). a star passed near to the sun, and by tidal action sucked the gases of a great sunburst out into space as a monster twirling gas mass.† The gas broke into eight main puffs which gradually coalesced into the eight planets-Mercury, Venus, Earth. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The first four are now more or less solid, the others very gaseous, Jupiter, the largest, being 1,000 times greater than Earth...
This is a war of cheap cars, Ford v. Chevrolet. There is a surprising dearth of such cars on the Continent. Citroen, leading continental mass-producer, cannot turn out a car that will undersell the Ford in France, though Fords cost 25,700 francs ($1,008), about double the American price. The cheapest Chevrolet model sells for 30,400 francs ($1,191). France's 45% ad valorem duty largely accounts for these prices. Even with this duty, it is estimated that General Motors' projected cheap car for the Opel Works could be sold in France at about...