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Geologists divide the earth's history into a sequence of periods: Permian, Jurassic, etc. But seldom do they agree on the age of each period, and a particularly annoying question mark is the Pleistocene, an epoch of intermittent ice ages during which man became true man. The geological dating system that uses the decay of uranium and other radioactive elements to tell the age of very ancient rocks is much too vague for the comparatively short Pleistocene. Dating by carbon 14, which is fine for recent times, reaches back only 60,000 years-not nearly enough...
...organizational monstrosity." Both the ICC and state commissions require months or years of hearings before railroads may drop obsolete runs. The New York Central struggled for five years to drop its West Shore line. It was losing $3,000,000 annually-enough, said the Central's president, Alfred Permian, "to have provided a Chevrolet, if not a Cadillac, for each of the less than 4,000 commuters using the service." Railroad unions also add to costs by featherbedding, and full-crew laws in 16 states force the roads to employ men they consider unnecessary, last year cost the Central...
...additional gas from Canada. Any impact on trade by eliminating Pacific Northwest as a competitor, said the commission, is overshadowed by the benefits conferred by the merger. Among these are the fact that Pacific Northwest's lines will enable El Paso to link up its San Juan Basin, Permian Basin and Panhandle Field with important new sources of Canadian gas. The resulting $1.7 billion supplier, said the commission, will be financially stronger, able to take on new customers, and in a position to grant rate reductions...
...losses, the New York Central Railroad announced that it will pull out of the Railway Express Agency, Inc. Hauling express parcels on its passenger trains, the Central said, accounts for $11 million of the $52 million deficit billed for passenger trains. Said the Central's president, Alfred E. Permian: "The old method of collecting parcels at gathering points and then loading them onto passenger cars is obsolete...
...Donn believe that this "unzoned" climate was possible because the earth's poles were then in large water areas. There was no nearby land for ice to accumulate on, and the water cooled by each winter season was soon dissipated by ocean currents. Far back, in the Permian age, there was another glacial period. Drs. Ewing and Donn suspect that the Permian poles moved to land areas and covered them with...