Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...astronomy. There he came to the attention of famed, blind Astronomer Edwin B. Frost, who got him a post at Yerkes Observatory. Fox later became professor of astronomy at Northwestern, spent every clear night at the telescope, slept from 6 a.m. to 11, took a long swim in Lake Michigan before going to afternoon classes. As an infantry officer he saw action in the Spanish and World Wars. Last week the trustees of the Rosenwald Museum asked the Planetarium's Dr. Fox to double his duties and direct the Museum as well. He accepted the new post, vacant since...
Professor Abbott, who has been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1920, is noted as an authority on British history, particularly on the English revolutionary and religious movements of the 17th century. Before coming to Harvard he had taught at Cornell, Michigan, Dartmouth, University of Kansas, Chicago, and Yale. Among his works are "The Expansion of Europe", 1917; "Conflicts with Oblivion", 1924; "The New Barbarians", 1925; "A Bibliography of Oliver Cromwell", 1929; and "Adventures in Reputation...
...high-riding ore boats westbound from the Soo Canal stayed strung out there for two days, like black beetles stuck in cake frosting. In the Straits of Mackinac 50 miles south the car ferry Chief Wawatan cleared a path of blue water for four freighters, led them across Lake Michigan to Escanaba, returned to the Straits to break ice for a cluster of 38 more. At week's end the wind changed to the south. Through softer ice the freighters Frontenac and Peter White pushed ahead of the others out of Whitefish Bay and crossed Lake Superior to Duluth...
Iron Ground. In 1844 a surveyor named William A. Burt, plagued by a dipping compass needle, discovered outcroppings of iron ore on Michigan's upper peninsula near Lake Superior. During the next few years prospectors filtered in among the Indians and trappers, word filtered out to Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo of the 30-mile Marquette iron range. Chief problem for interested capital was how to get ships into Lake Superior against the rapids of St. Mary's River. In Congress cold Henry Clay had killed an appropriation for a canal at Sault Ste. Marie, saying it might as well...
...been transformed into the iron & steel of heavy industry. In 1929 the U. S. Bureau of Mines estimated that if ore continued to move out of the Lake Superior region at the rate of 65,204,600 tons a year, all the high-grade ore in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan would be exhausted in about 37 years. That rate fell as low as 3,567,985 tons during Depression, was up again to 44,822,023 in 1936. Especially important for this reason are the huge reserves of low-grade ore in the Mesabi Range which holds...