Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere or in the airless space beyond, man is as much out of his element as a mackerel marching across the Sahara. But unlike the mackerel, man is determined to transcend his environment. He reaches for the stars. A short half-century after the Wright brothers skittered over the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk aircraft now on the designers' boards will fly at heights of 100,000 to 125,000 ft. Man (Major Arthur Murray) has already flown up to 90,000 ft. and at 2½ times the speed of sound. Rockets have gone up 250 miles...
...deposited their sediment far out on the bottom of the ocean. Most of the sediment, he thinks, was carried down in remote geological ages. The turbidity currents probably started near land. They cut deep gorges (e.g., the famous Hudson Canyon) in the continental slopes and dumped their silt and sand in deep basins in the irregular ocean bottom. When the nearest basin was full, the mud-river ran across it just as a river would do on dry land, and started to fill the next basin. The canyon just found east of Philadelphia is probably cut in the sediment...
...prove this theory the Columbia scientists took cores of the material that forms the abyssal plains. They found what they hoped to find. On top is a thin layer of "lutite," very fine silt deposited from still water. Below it is the coarse sand that was carried over the sea bottom for hundreds of miles by mighty under-ocean rivers...
Died. Kokichi Mikimoto, 95, onetime noodle merchant who became the world's largest producer of cultured pearls; of a kidney ailment; in Nagoya, Japan. Perfecting by trial and error a method of seeding oysters known since the 13th century (a fleck of sand or a tiny bead is forced into the oyster, which seeks to counteract the irritant by coating it with layer upon layer of pearl-making nacre), spry, fun-loving Mikimoto (who entertained his employees with feats of magic and parasol-twirling) scandalized Paris in 1913, when he first brought his quarter-price pearls to the international...
Gulf are not very different from their fossil ancestors. Each species has its preference for sand, mud or shell bottom. If scientific frogmen learn enough about the modern sea creatures, they may be able to use their forebears in the deep rocks to point where a reef or sand bar (now saturated with oil) lies hidden not far away...