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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, not counting the Republican-abetted filibuster of the Southern Democrats over civil rights. Michigan's Homer Ferguson produced some figures to shift the blame right back to the Democrats. As he had it, the Republicans had used up only 1,563 and one-ninth pages of the Record; Democrats had used 1,612 and four-ninths...
...career making movies in Panama, the Bahamas and Australia, plus combat photography in the Philippines (as a Navy lieutenant), Barton went at it again on his own. Off the California coast, 35 miles southwest of Santa Barbara, he went down alone in his Benthoscope.* and broke the Beebe-Barton record with a descent to 4,500 feet, the deepest that any living man has ever gone under...
After several test dips and three days' delay because of rough water, Barton clambered through the 15-inch porthole in the rust-streaked white ball, and made the plunge for the record. He was in constant telephone communication with his surface crew. His comments, amplified topside by loudspeakers...
...know what it is. The tentacles of an octopus just dragged by, showering sparks." At 1,750: "The headphones are getting cold." At 2,500: "I see a barrage of luminescent, spirally shrimp beating against the window. They seem to splash when they hit." After passing the old record: "This is an unbelievable world down here. I wish Dr. Beebe were down here with me. He might know what some of these things are..." A little later: "Let's hold up here a while. There are so many things going by that it kind of makes me dizzy." Then...
Brightest spot is the construction industry. Although it started off slowly this year, building has generated plenty of steam. In June and July, a total of 196,000 new housing units were started, 4,200 more than in the near-record year...