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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believes that the meteoritic clumps corresponding to these humps can be reached by sinking a shaft straight down through rock undisturbed by the meteorite's passage, then drifting sidewise through the troublesome watery strata which were broken by the impact. Even if the meteoritic bodies weigh no more than a million tons, at present prices they should be worth...
Before starting a week TIME now gives its staff a two-day rest, during which a backlog of news is allowed to pile up. The week proper begins with long hours of conferences in which writers, researchers, and various specialists, in successive groups of three to 15, examine, weigh, discuss news developments with the managing editors. Requests for more information and verification of facts are wired, telephoned, cabled. Meantime, an immense volume of news-20,000 words an hour-continues to gush in. New conferences are held, old decisions revised, new research begun, stories written, torn apart, rewritten...
...Philadelphia stage waddled his revived Beef Trust, once the prime ribs of burlesque. The current show, Watson claims, is an exact duplicate, gags and all, of the old-time one. But in 1898 top weight for burlesque beauties was 180 pounds; today all Beef-Trusters weigh 200 or more. The Trust got its name during a Chicago stockyards investigation, trouped for 25 years, laid off in the early 1920s. Last week a new generation greeted it with the same roars, in the same places, for the same reason...
...really big star astronomers look to Antares, a red supergiant 400,000,000 miles in diameter. All stars are globes of hot gas. Antares is relatively cool, its gaseous density very low. Thirty-seven thousand cubic feet of its star-stuff, if concentrated and brought to earth, would weigh only one pound. Yet up to last week it held rank as the largest star known to astronomy...
Competitors must weigh in at the Gymnasium before their bouts, and all weights must be approved by the manager or assistant manager. An allowance of three pounds over the regular weight will be made...