Word: subterranean
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Admiral Earl Mountbatten, commander in chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, took time off at Naples, adjusted his undersea fishing gear, dived into the Gulf of Salerno for a little subterranean exploration...
...They explored the even deeper caverns that sloped away from the shaft. They threw yellow-green dye into a rushing underground river to test their theory that this was the same river which surged out of the ground three miles away. (It was.) They looked for new forms of subterranean life, such as the cockroaches they found last year, almost white and without eyes. Last week, after four days underground, Loubens telephoned that he was coming...
...past half a century, a good part of Mexico City's surface has been sinking. Engineers believe that a subterranean lake below the capital's site has been drying up and, in the process, bringing down the level of the settlement above it (TIME, June 9). The city is now lower than its immediate environs-though, as inhabitants jokingly point out, it is still more than 7,300 ft. above sea level-and the archaic drainage system is out of kilter. As a result, rainwater lingers on. The periodic rain gluts have grown worse in recent years. Last...
...crowded old Washington Street, look about as quaint as its makeup. Grozier kept it that way because he did not want to change its old-fashioned appearance. When he needed more room, he dug it out underground, equipped the Post with a modern plant whose presses spread through five subterranean floors. One of the paper's major handicaps has been the advertising edge enjoyed by its competitors (Globe, Herald and Trawler, Hearst's Record and American), which have both morning & afternoon editions, enforce "combination" advertising rates for both. If a recent court decision finding such enforced rates...
...greatest treasure hunt in U.S. history is in full cry. Above the green of North Dakota wheatfields rise the spidery towers of oil-drilling rigs. On the plains of Utah, shirt-sleeved crews set off dynamite blasts and, from the vibrations, map the subterranean oil-bearing strata. Over Alabama cottonfields fly planes with strange; antenna-like tails, which pick up magnetic waves and thus record geological formations below. In West Texas, wildcatters, trucks loaded with tools, inch across the prairies like gypsy caravans...