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Winded not only by the morning Chronicle's lively sprint but by a costly competition for an afternoon market big enough for only one, San Francisco's two evening papers last week gave up vying and merged. The union welds weak links of two big newspaper chains: Hearst...
The new paper, to be published daily except Sunday as the News-Call Bulletin, will be run editorially by Scripps-Howard, leaving the business operation under Hearstmen. Unaffected by the consolidation : Hearst's morning Examiner, still the biggest paper in town (circ. 263,500, or 27,020 more than...
Wartime Romance. This momentous incident began a wartime romance be tween the U.S. Navy and oceanographers, whom most Government officials had until then considered a curious tribe of men messing about with sounding leads and little bottles of water samples. In the next few years, oceanographers at Woods Hole and...
Golden Age. War's end marked the beginning of the golden age of U.S. oceanography. For the first time in its life, Woods Hole had enough money. More Navy millions went to California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which matches Woods Hole in growth, and claims, with California...
Only a small part of the ocean bed is yet known in any detail. Recent surveys have shown that large areas of the bottom are covered thickly with rounded, blackish nodules that have grown as crusts around some nucleus, sometimes a shark's tooth. They are mostly iron and...