Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hastened Prohibition's repeal; the Post-Dispatch's corrosive Daniel R. Fitzpatrick; the Baltimore Sun's hard-hitting Edmund Duffy; J. N. (Ding) Darling of the Des Moines Register and the New York Herald Tribune; Arthur Henry (Art) Young of Chicago's old Inter-Ocean, a bitter commentator on social injustice-burned with an inner fire that gave their names and their work a national currency...
...most accessible part of the earth's interior is at the ocean's bottom, where the crust is thin. Project Mohole, the U.S. attempt to reach the boundary layer between the earth's crust and mantle by drilling off the coast of Mexico, so far has penetrated only ordinary, surface-type rocks. Last week, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reported far better success with another method. From the fractured north wall of the Puerto Rico Trench, its research ship Chain has dredged up the first samples of "third layer" rock ever gathered...
When geophysicists tag the rock strata under the ocean, they call the ocean water the first layer. On the bottom is the second layer: sediment and sedimentary rock averaging 1 km. thick. Below it lies the third layer, which seismic waves have proved to be made of unusually heavy rock. The third layer is normally unreachable, but scientists making a seismic survey in 1959 got hints that it might be exposed on the sides of the Puerto Rico Trench. In 1960 Dr. Earl Hays of Woods Hole took photographs showing fractured rock on the trench's north wall...
...single new industry. Duluth built a new $9,000,000 port terminal, and though the city's outgoing shipments have risen, its import turnover is off 46% from a year ago. Other regional centers profit in some ways only to lose in others. Buffalo's ocean tonnage has doubled, but its great milling business has sagged because Midwest grain carriers now head straight overseas without stopping at Buffalo. Lake Erie steelmakers enjoy cheaper ore imports but suffer stiffer foreign competition, because imported steel is cheaper when brought in through the St. Lawrence...
With a new emphasis on research, Chris-Craft is building at its Pompano Beach (Fla.) headquarters a $250,000 laboratory to evaluate the data it gathers in ocean-testing its new models. Chris-Craft engineers are experimenting with jet engines for boats. They are also testing a new "outmount" drive unit that combines the best features of an inboard engine (lower center of gravity, less fuel consumption) with the good points of an outboard (the drive shaft kicks up if it strikes an obstruction, can be raised for beaching and loading aboard a trailer...