Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter was in familiar surroundings, but its author was not. Mollie Panter-Downes, London correspondent for the New Yorker since the day Britain went to war, had come to Manhattan to meet her bosses for the first time. The "goddam bunch of neurotics," as terrier-tempered Editor Harold Ross calls his jumpy staff, were charmed...
Before the Navy gives way to the Antarctic winter, mapping planes may try to find out if Antarctica is really a single continent. Two deep indentations, the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea, poke toward one another through its frozen heart. Are the seas connected by a strait choked with eternal ice? This, says Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, is "the world's greatest unsolved geographical puzzle...
Before real estate brokers or prospectors slake their claims, however, the ticklish international problem of rights on the continent must be solved. The U. S. held on Little America is weak, both legally and physically, warns Professor Rice, because Byrd's settlement is on the Ross ice shelf, which is tech- nically ocean and a "no mans land...
With his 22-man night shift last week, Danny went 835 feet down into the Nottingham's top Ross vein-a black and echoing tunnel under the Susquehanna River. The federal inspectors had removed the explosive methane gas pockets when they last visited the top Ross vein in September. This night, soon after Danny began digging, the gas pockets came back...
Outstanding in a cast which displays no notable weaknesses are Jerry Ross and Betty Kean. Ross' dancing has all the vigor and strength of Gene Kelly and should take him into the big time within a year or two. Miss Kean's rendition of the "South America Take It Away" routine manages the difficult feat of being subdued, tasteful and sensational all at one time...