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...going has been so rugged for U.S. railroads that the Government has not authorized the building of an all-new road since 1924. And that one, the Wenatchee in Washington State, never got off the planning boards. But last week the Permian Basin Railroad Co. of Odessa, Texas, announced that it will begin construction in the spring and hopes to open track from Odessa to Seagraves, Texas, by early 1970. Construction costs will be a modest $9,000,000 because the all-freight Permian Basin will be only 78 miles long...
Romer, an authority on vertebrate animals, was director of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1946-61. His research has centered on the amphibians and reptiles of the Permian period (220-225 million years ago). His study of pelycosaurs has cast light on the remote origin of mammals. Two of his works, "The Vertebrate Body" and "Vertebrate Paleontology" have become standard texts in many universities...
...President Lawrence S. Reed, 58, who spent almost ten years buying and selling oil leases before they took over Texas Gulf in 1941. The Reed brothers have also been adept at oil prospecting. Their greatest strike was the 150 million bbl. Headlee Field in West Texas' Permian Basin. But that was in 1952, and the costs of finding another one like it today are staggering. The best prospects remaining are Louisiana deep holes that cost $700,000 each to bring in, or offshore wells that can cost up to $10 million each-prices only the majors can afford...
...West Germany's highly respected Zentralblatt für Bacteriologie, Bacteriologist Heinz J. Dombrowski reported that he had revived dehydrated bacteria preserved in rock salt since the Permian Period 180 million years ago. In Britain's Nature, Dr. George Claus of New York University Medical Center and Chemistry Professor Bartholomew Nagy of Fordham University reported finding dead organisms that may have ridden in from outer space aboard meteorites...
...soil, he decided, because they are present in the water when it is still 600 ft. below the surface. Besides, they were a type whose modern representatives live in the sea. And along with the bacteria, the brine carried fossil pollen from trees that grew in the Permian...