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Churned Earth. Early last week a Dutch engineer named Egbert Roosma took a stroll on the outskirts of the camp. The late afternoon sun glistened on the bright yellow barracks, repair shops and tool sheds. There was a constant roar from bulldozers and heavy-duty trucks churning up the slate-grey earth as they carried dirt and rocks to the growing wall. Roosma, 25, had reason for satisfaction: the Mattmark project would be completed by October, and its turbines were already generating electricity. He had got on well with his Swiss employers and with the hundreds of workers...
...clock. Technician Oskar Anthamatten worked on the balky engine of a bulldozer. In the canteen a dozen men drank beer and munched sandwiches. Some 50 others were still in the barracks, resting up for the night shift. Suddenly there was a dull groan from the sky. Glancing up, Roosma saw a long chunk of the curling lip of the glacier break off and begin to slide down the cliff, slowly at first and then in a quickening whirl of ice and rock and snow...
Married. Lieutenant John Sibea Roosma, West Point 1926, famed as a member of the Passaic High School basketball team which rushed to 159 straight victories (in six years) before it was beaten (in February, 1925) by a burly team from Hackensack (Roosma was not a member when it finally lost); to Miss Marjorie Henion; at Passaic...
HARVARD WEST POINT McLeish, r.f. l.g., Forbes Gordon, l.f. r.g., Wood Fitts, c. c., Debezies Black, r.g. l.f., Vichules Rudofsky, l.g. r.f., Roosma...
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