Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unlawful for an Indian to carry a pail of sea water to his home. Although India has four of the world's best rock salt areas in the world, could locally manufacture all the salt necessary, the British government dumps some 600,000 tons in the Indian market annually, thus provides ballast tonnage for British shipping, gets $20,000,000 annual revenue from India. The monopolized salt is sold to Indians at prices sometimes 2,000% of production cost. Indian farmers who take cattle to the seashore at night to let them lick whatever salt is deposited, thereby...
...Rock Island-'Frisco. The first major move by Dillon, Read & Co. in the railroad field was their obtaining control of the Seaboard Air Line. Last week it was revealed that the firm controls about 11% of the outstanding stock of Rock Island and a large block of St. Louis & San Francisco, which controls Rock Island. Foreseen: a Rock Island-'Frisco merger...
...lower than anyone had ever gone there before him, slid Frank Ernest Nicholson, journalist-explorer, into the unmeasured depths of the Carlsbad Cave in the Guadalupe Mountains in lower New Mexico. Last week came reports of his expedition, begun in January (TIME, Jan. 27). He told of nightmare rock formations, of crystal clear water and perfect cave pearls in a subterranean pool. While he was drinking, a feeble chirping split the stifling black silence. He investigated, found a nest of milk-white crickets, curiously not blind from living in the dark...
...explorers went, through a meagre crevice in the tunnel to yet another hall. The rocks were coated with powdery limestone formation. Nicholson jumped from a rock onto seemingly solid floor, sank neck deep into powdery dust which, clouding aloft from its aeons of tranquillity, floated steadily off through an immense opening near the ceiling...
...meteor can easily be seen, as well as the sharp upward bending of these layers on the sides. Owing to the position of the meteor it is not possible to ascertain how much of a "nose" it has, and how deep this nose has buried itself in the rock. Accordingly only a rough estimate can be made of its mass, in all probability not less than fifty tons...