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...some 90 U.S. papers. With Cartoonist Baker's permission, the Army got out a comic book showing Sad Sack up against the pitfalls and pratfalls of civilian life. When he draws his first paycheck, he finds that after all the taxes and deductions, he has only a nickel left. Even that turns out to be counterfeit, and Sad Sack is glad to reenlist...
Rampaging wells and eager people are signs of the times in booming Alberta. All Canada has expanded amazingly since World War II; discoveries of iron ore, nickel, copper, uranium and titanium are cracking open a dozen new frontiers. But the biggest boom of all is in Alberta's oil, the most significant new find on the continent since Texas' Spindletop roared in, 50 years...
Then the expedition tried dragging powerful magnets over the ground, hoping to pick up fragments of nickel-iron. The soil around the Arizona crater is full of such stuff, but not one bit did they find near the Chubb Crater. Geologist Meen suspects that the Chubb meteorite may have been made largely of stone, which disintegrated on impact and drifted away as dust...
Last summer's expedition, financed by the National Geographic Society, carried in a planeload of equipment and set out to find the evidence. Attempts to find fragments of nickel-iron from the meteorite were unsuccessful. The expedition's mine detectors (lent by the U.S. Army) were scarcely more useful: they gave too many indications, squealed excitedly whenever they were brought near an ordinary granite boulder. Apparently, said Geologist Meen, the granite of the region contains enough magnetic iron ore to drive a mine detector wild...
...hell-hot jet engines, promptly began cashing in on the jet boom. Two months ago, Solar's research team came out with the "Solaramic process" for coating stainless steel with a paintlike ceramic, enabling steel to stand extreme heat without corroding and without using such scarce metals as nickel and cobalt...