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...most experts agree that mongooses would be a disaster to the warmer parts of the U.S. In 1900, Congress passed a law prohibiting their immigration...
...Warmer. The shortage of anthracite coal was over. Robert V. White, president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. (last year's production: 6 million tons, v. 2.5 million in 1938), warned the coal industry that within two or three months it "will have so much anthracite it may embarrass them...
Bigger & Better Mountains? From Milne's hypothesis, Haldane leaped to some startling deductions. Most startling: that the earth's crust, far from cooling off, is actually getting warmer - it is generating more heat by radioactivity (radiations from the earth's elements) than it is losing by conduction to the atmosphere...
Haldane thinks that man may expect "bigger and better mountain ranges-and bigger and better earthquakes-in the future than in the past." He adds that the earth will continue to get warmer for about a billion years...
...landing-mat program, once thought finished, was reinstated, calling for 350,000 tons of sheet steel this year. The maritime and Navy program was also boosted again, just when the War Production Board had expected it to dwindle. Like most people in the cold Northeast, steelmen prayed for warmer weather, predicted they could up operating rates with the temperature...