HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1952-2-27, Page 7Glacier in Alaska
Oat Flows Uphill
Geologists of the California In-
atitute of 'l'erlinology headed by
Dr, Robert P. Sharp find that much
of the Malaspina. Glacier• 3n aqui))-
ern Alaska flows uphill.
A base camp was set up on the
3krt near the center of ,the glacier.
about forty miles from the nearest
/settlement, the native village of
Yakutat. Supplies and equipment
were flown ht by heicopter','It was
found that the rock floor under
the center of the glacier, which
covers more than '1,000 square
miles, slopes back inland toward
St, Elias Mountains, to the Horth.
Small cjiarges .of dynamite were
/set off 'in shallow holes 3n .the ice,
`The seismographs recorded the
shockwaves reflected from the
rock floor, Knowing the velocity
of the waves through ice and the
time it.took them to make a round
trip to and from the rock floor, it
was possible to calculate how far
they had traveled.
The measurements indicated that
the ice thickness along the ten -
mile line ranged between 1,130 and
2,075 feet and that the floor under
the glacier center was at least 685
feet below sea level, whereas it
rises above sea level at the giac-
ier's outer edge.
Uphill From Mountain Base
"Thus," Professor Sharp says,
"the sheet of ice constituting Mal-
aspina Glacier shoves uphill on
its journey outward from the base
of the mountains. This it cannot do
by gravity, at least insofar as
movement over its floor is con-
cerned. Nor can the thrust of the
Seward Glacier pouring out of the
St. Elias Mountains be more than
a minor factor because of the great
mass of the Malaspina."
How is it possible for a glacier
to flow uphill, or even over a flat
surface? The late Max Demorest,
an American geologist who died
during rescue mission on the
Greenland Ice Sheet in 192, thought
that glacier flow over a flat floor
was caused primarily by pressure
differences in the ice mass arising
from unequal ace thickness. Plastic
ice deep inside the glacier would
be squeezed -from high pressure
regions, where the ice was thicker,
to low pressure regions, usually the
margins of the sheet.
British glaciologists and physi-
cists countered with the suggestion
that an ice sheet Bowl over flat
land by moving inside the glacier
along inclined planes that slope
downward toward its margins,
Hole Inside Ice Sheet
To solve the problem Dr. Sharp
and his group sank a vertical hole
1,000 feet deep into the ice sheet
and left the drill pipe in the hole.
They bored into the sheet with an
electrically heated hot point.
The drill pipe will probably be
bent by the moving ice. its degree
of bending should be different at
different depths within the glacier.
13y measuring the various degrees
of deformation, a vertical velocity
profile can be constructed for the
ice sheet. If the pipe is bent more
at the bottom than at the top, it.
means that the lower portion of
the glacier is moving more than
the upper. This will lend support
to the theory of squeezing induced
by pressure differences. If the
deformation is greater at the top
than at the bottom, support will
be given to some other concept,
perhaps the British theory of grav-
ity flow along sloping planes in
the. glacier.
The pipe ultimately will be torn
apart or crushed, but this is not
likely to happen for several years.
Famous At One — Christopher
Miltenberger is interested in the
frosting on his first birthday
cake, unaware that his blood
type is so rare that medical men
have named it in his honor.
After a worldwide search the
NMihenbergee B 1 o o'd Factor"
was found in only three other
cases, all in the family,
Quick Diagnosis, In Manhattan,
woundedby a holdup man, hospit- ,
:nixed 'Sant Klein took ane shock-
ed look at the new patient getting
into the next bed, frantically cried:
'That's the guy who shot tae."
New Provinces To Be
Reclaimed From Sea
(Me day round about the year
1925 they will hoist flags an tine
buildings in a new capital city the
Site of which is at present covered
by 'the sea, To -day a buoy marks
the place where the capital -to -be
of Holland's twelfth province, now
being reclaimed from the former
Zuider, Zee, • will be established
This amazing scheme, which be-
gamin 1950, will cost Holland's
taxpayers at least a quarter of a
billion dollars and will take a quar-
ter .of a century to complete, An
ares half the size of Lincolnshire
will be won from the sea.
Part of the new province, on
North-East Polder, has already
been reclaimed and 7,800 people
have settled in, Fifty farmers who
weft dispossessed during the war
at Walcberen — where R.A.F.
bombers smashed the dykes—are
• among those operating virgin acres
where waves were lappingnot long
a g o. .The Government parcelled
the land out to them on 30 -year
leases; it is too expensive for the
farmers to buy,
This reclaimed land is enormous-
ly fertile. Crops are being sown
although it lies about 12 feet be-
low the level of the water lapping
at the dykes around it. But the
Dutch, undismayed by difficulties,
are slowly pushing ahead; and a
queue of farmers who want land
patiently await the day when they,
too, can start farming on the re-
claimed acres. There are at least
50 applicants for every parcel of
land freed from the sea,
Holland, among all European
countries, has been for centuries
,t h e greatest victim of the sea's
ravages, The sea swallowed up
more than thirty villages and des-
troyed much of the fertile penin-
sula near the mouth of the Ems
in the thirteenth century.
Flooding opened an immense
chasm in Northern Holland' and
created .the Zuider Zee, causing
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But, They're So-So—Sewing expert Ann Necchi teaches the wonders
of the sewing machine to a class of wide-eyed boys at the Madison
Square Boys' Club. Free classes for boys ranging in age from
seven to 10 are conducted each week at the club. Once they master
the art of machine droning and button replacement, the boys will
go on to the more artistic subjects of embroidery and applique
work.
more than 80,000 deaths, But
worse was to follow. In 1921, a
great gale so swelled the waters
of the Meuse that in one night 72
villages and 100,000 inhabitants
were overwhelmed.
Similar catastrophes followed in
latea centuries; flourishing cities
vanished under the waters. There
was an immense loss of life and
countless animals 'as well as men
and women perished.
TABLE TALKS
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There was a time -believe it or
not—when the word "hamburger"
brought us visions of the trips to
the Exhibition Midway, the local
Fall Fair, or something of the kind.
In other words, . hamburgers just
weren't copsidered as a regular
item onthe family menu.
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But those days are gone, per-
haps forever. Ever since the price
of meat started its present upward
journey, families who never before
used ground beef patties as the
meat for dinner are now Busy
learning new ways to prepare then:
and new names to call them.
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A buying tip for hamburger—
always insist on freshly ground
beef, or have chuck, round, flank,
plate, brisket, shank, or neck meat
ground before your eyes. If meat
is very lean, add 2 ounces of suet
per pound of ground meat. Cover
ground meat lightly with - waxed
paper and store it in the coldest
part of the refrigerator, and use
it within 2 days. ,
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The all -Canadian -hamburger is
made of thisground beef seasoned
with salt and usually with"chopped
onion, part -browned in a small am-
ount of fat in a skillet and served
on a bun, To broil this neat pat-
ty, place in a pan and broil 3
inches front heat source (make
hamburgers thick for cooking),
and 'turn once to brown on each
side.
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When - ready to serve, spread
with two tablespoons of butter
mixed with one of the follow-
ing: 2 tablespoons Worcestershire
sauce; 1 tablespoon prepared mus-
tard; 2 tablespoons blue cheese;
2 tablepoons chopped chives; or
2 tablespoons catsup and 1 teas-
poon chili powder.
5 * *
To make broiled hamburgers
into cheeseburgers, before you re-
move 'them from the broiler, top
each with a slice of cheese and
broil 2 minutes more, or until
cheese begins to melt,
* * *
A variation of the hamburger is
called Salisbury steak. It is usu-
ally simply seasoned with salt ant?
pepper and pan-fried. Onions are
served on the side..
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SOUR CREAM SAUCE
2 tablespoons flour
r! cup water
54 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon horse -radish
1/4 teaspoon thyme
Whet) Salisbury steaks are cook-
ed, remove to warm plate and `stir
floor in drippings in skillet. Add
remaining ingredients and bring
to bojling point, stirring constantly,
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For a "South of the Border"
tang to your ground meat patties,
snake treat balls Mexicana a n d
serve with a hearty tomato -corn-
chili sauce.
telEAT BALLS MEXICANA
I. pound ground beef
cup rolled oats uncooked
s/ cup tomato juice .(use liquid
from tomatoes for sauce)
4 tablespoons chopped onion
1 teaspoon salt
54 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon Worcestershire
sauce
SAUCE:
cup chopped onion
1 No. 244 can tomatoes
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 No. 2,can whole kernel corn,
drained
Combine all meat ball ingredi-
ents. Shape into 12 balls. Pan-fry
in hot fat until brown. Add sauce
ingredients. Cover and simmer 25
minutes, Makes 4 servings.
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A cheese crusted hamburger pie
makes a party dish of ground meat.
Serve it for lunch with a tossed
green salad,
CHEESE CRUSTED
HAMBURGER PIE
1 garlic bud, sliced
3 tablespoons fat
1 pound ground beef
2 tablespoons chopped green
peppers
XI cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 No. 2 can tomato juice (2%
cups)
cup chopped celery
2 teaspoons Worcestershire
sauce
Fry garlic in fat in heavy skil-
let for about 5 minutes. Remove
garlic and place -beef and green
pepper in skillet and brown well.
Stir in flour and salt. ,Add tomato
juice and cook until thickened,
stirring constantly. Stir in celery
and Worcestershire sauce. 'Pour
into 8 -inch square baking dish and
top with cheese pastry.
CHEESE PASTRY
1/ cups sifted sour
54 teaspoon salt
44 cup shortening
54 cup shredded Canadian
cheese
3 tablespoons cold Water
(about)
• Sift flour and salt together and
cut in shortening; add cheese.
Sprinkle with water. Mix lightly
until dough begins to stick to-
gether. Roll out about 54 inch
thick, Cut into 8.3nchsquare and
cover hamburger mixture. Cut re-
maining pastry into strips % inch
on top of 8-inph pastry square.
Bake at 400'F. about 30 minutes.
Makes 4 servings,
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Most people have favorite meat
loaf recipes in which they use
ground beef. Make your favorite
loaf and use the following sugges-
tions for an extra touch.
Glaze your loaf by inverting it,
after it is baked, on a baking sheet
and brushing it with a mixture of
ntuelard and catsup. Return to
hat oven for 10 minutes. For a
white -capped loaf, 30 minutes be-
fore it is done cover loaf with a
row of overlapping onion dices
and continue baking. To make
midget loaves, bake loaf mixture
in muslin pans. For meat loaf ring,
pack Mixture into a ring, mold and
bake 45 minutes, Let stand In
warm place a few minutes then in-
vert on a platter and fill center
with buttered vegetables,
SALLY'S SALLIES
5.4
"Don't look so worried, sir. The
fourth is not expected until an
other half hour!"
Real "Model" Wife
The -first t'ailor's dummy was in-
' tended to represent the Virgin
Mary,
Its inventor was Bartolomeo Bae-
cio della Porta, a ldth-century
Italian monk who was attached to
the monastery of San Marco, in
Florence.
I -le liked to paint scenes from the
life of Christ. A • central figure in
most of these scenes, as the artist
saw them, was the Virgin Mary, but
there was no woman who could sit
fur hint, ,
One day the artist bad an idea,
Ile carved pieces of wood into
shape, fachioiting head, trunk and
limbs, and wired' them together.
Next he adapted a monk's habit in-
to a dress and clothed the model,
News of this brought Tonino,
dressmaker to the Italian Court,
Examining the model he soon re-
alized how such a model could help
hits in his work, Ile went home and
made one for himself, He called it
"manichino," or dress holder.
There was no living mannequins
until the 19th century. _ Charles
Frederick Worth, a ladies' tailor
with an exclusive clientele, used to
snake occasional journeys to Paris,
to see The latest models. His method
was to stand in shops and memor-
ise the dresses of the customers.
On one occasion he wandered in-
to a haberdasher's shop and his at-
tention was caught by one of the
sales girls. To help a customer to
judge the looks of a shawl this girl
slipped it across her own shoulders.
During the next half-hour Worth
watched her do this several times
and slowly it dawned on him that
if a girl could do that with a shawl
and effect a sale as a result. what
could she not do with an exclusive
dress?
He waited until the shop had
closed, and when the sales girl left
the premises he spoke to her. Hav-
ing convinced her that his proposi-
tion was genuine, he asked her if
she would leave her shop, go with
hint to London and wear his dress
creations. Eventually the girl ag-
reed and some weeks later London
flocked to see the latest novelty —
a mannequin parade with only one
mannequins
It was so successful that Worth
arranged another a few weeks later,
This time the mannequin was Mrs.
Worth. He had fallen in love with
his model and married her!
New and Useful
World's Loudest Noise
This handy gadget will liven up
any dull party. Powered by 180
hp engine, a three stage compres-
sor drives air through six giant
horns at speeds exceeding 400 mph.
Maker claims resulting sound
(rated at 173 decibels) is "the
loudest mechanically contrived
noise ever devised by man for
sustained output" Designed for
civil defense use, the siren revolves
on its base. In good weather is
said to be heard in a circular area
with 16 -mile diameter,
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Winter Comfort on the Job
Propane gas is used in this
handy portable heater which is
said to raise room temperature by
50 degrees in less than half an
hour. Also useful for outdoors.
* * *
Window Insulation
Mounted on custom-built frames
that fit individual casings, two
sheets of a light, transparent
plastic insulate glass and are said
to be 654% clearer as no condensa*
tion will form. Guaranteed against
yellowing, they wilt not crack, are
light and easy to store, Applied
to pane's inside surface,
* * *
Salt Without Shaking
New table salt will pour even
when water is added. Contains
calcium silicate to do the trick,
* * *
Pine -Odor 011
A special ingredient gives a pine
smell to oil for use in kerosene
lamps and for strting charcoal
fires. Packaged in quart cans.
* * *
Safe Money Chest
Engineered to give maximum
protection for cash collections, ver-
satile depository has wide applica-
tion for companies using route
salesmen and collectors.. By unique
rotary hopper, removal of cash
after deposit has been made is
physically impossible, the maker
states Stands four feet high, with
upper and lower doors.
Gamma Corn—Dr. Ralph Singleton examines genetic changes, or
mutations, in kernels of corn which have been exposed to varying
amounts of Gamma rays. The kernels in the large piles remained
unchanged. Those in the small piles, being closer, were changed.
Some of the mutations were for color and some for sweetness.
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,SELT0.Cil TELLS THE WORLD
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"Say 'Canada' and you think of
sparkling -clear dr; of icv, teeming
streams; of sun -drenched farms and
orcbardr. It seems only natural, then,
that there should be an especially clean
taste to so many of the good things
from this favoured land."
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The above illustration and text are from an advertisement
now being published by The House of Seagram throughout
Speckled trout...
The thrill of the day's catch*
the dean taste that's unforgettable
*for this, fishermen come thousands
of miles to Canada every year,
the world—in Latin America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. This
is one of a series of advertisements featuring Canadian
scenes and Canadian food specialties. They are designed
to make Canada better known throughout the world, and
to help our balance of trade by assisting out Government's
efforts to attract tourists to this great land.
The House of' Seagram feels that the horizon of industry
does not terminate at the boundary of its plants; it has a
broader Horizon, a farther view—a view dedicated to the
development of Canada's stature in every land of the globe,
the douse of Seapram
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