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This vast collection, which will be on exhibit in Widener Library next week, includes several of Melville's travel journals, among which are the account of a voyage from New York to London in 1849, a trip "up the Straits" in 1856, and a voyage on board the ship 'Meteor...
Just west of T. W. A.'s transcontinental stop at Winslow, Meteor Crater is about 4.000 ft. in diameter, 570 ft. deep from the lip of the rim to the bottom. The force of the impact raised the crater's lip 120 ft. above the surrounding plain. The amount of weathering and other evidence in the bowl indicate that it was formed not less than 700 years ago and not more than 5,000 years. The Indians of the region have a legend that one of their gods descended to Earth at the spot in a pillar...
Shortly after the turn of the century, the Meteor Crater area was staked out as a mining claim by an engineer named Daniel Moreau Barringer. He and his sons, who inherited the claim when he died, have done some drilling themselves and have leased the claim at times to various other groups, but all attempts to exploit the crater's treasure have failed. Mr. Barringer first drilled in the centre, believing that because the crater was round the body must have fallen vertically. When he performed the highly ingenious experiment of firing bullets and shotgun charges into clay, however...
...Manhattan last week Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg told how he had made a 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...
...gusty squall. Suddenly, from the droning plane formation above the Flagship Pennsylvania came an unrehearsed crash, flame flashing out across the dark sky. Down near the flagship, Plane 11-P-3, having collided in the wind with Plane 11-P-4, dropped into the sea like a burning meteor. Plane 11-P-4 plummeted into the water by its side...