Glacier County chief., 1940-08-09
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he world shaking schemes that
be in my mail daily. But one
of thousand does have little
Fit. For example, once a gent
tie me that ordinary chicken wire
Id stop a tank. I thought that
goofy, but my college mate,
Ieral Wesson, now chief of ord
ce, wrote me that the letter pre-
ted a real idea.
fell, this is my brainstorm. So
ny people pull them on me, I
hit to be entitled to at least one.
er since I was a kid I have
n told that the Gulf Stream is
of hot water radiator system
/ is held away from most Of our
tern coast by a cold wall Of Arc
water. 1t is out there just the
be, from 40 to 200 miles to sea-
Id. You can actually see it and
W it from the encircling warmth
IN you enter it.
veers across the Atlantic ocean
is partly responsible for the
I'D, warm climate of the south
Past of England and also Of Spain,
ance, ireland and Scotland. II it
build be detected up our own and
be Canadian coasts it might give
benz the climate OF the Riviera and
ut most OF Mr.. Hitler's conquests
ice.
The Gulf Stream itself is not very
teat, but 1t carries a lot Of tropical
tier with it-at least on the sur
be. II goes through a narrow pas
BE between the Bahamas and
orids. Could any kind Of engi-
ering works there divert its flow?
Exactly what makes the Gull
leam act the way it does is not
|te certain-the rotation OF the
Fth-the confguration of the ocean
pr-prevailing winds and a lot of
Re unknown quantities are IN the
lation.
The engineering Of hydrodynam-
water in motion, is largely en-
ical, which means that it is gov
ped by no practicable mathemati-
formula. The way water flows
Tough a faucet or what happens
len you stick a dyke out into an
Fan current has to be determined
experiment. No hydraulic engi-
er is wise enough to say with abb
ute assurance either that the Gulf
feam could, or could not, be d.
rted in along our Atlantic coast
d away from Mr.. Hitler's Europe.
le only dependable way to find out
to make miniature model of the
lantic ocean and play with the
hter in it. As a practical mat
., that is impossible.
But there have been many we'll
formed speculations on this posi-
lity. Nobody ever wanted or
bred to 60 very far with them be-
luse, in spite of our winter and
Pugh weather, we were getting
ong well enough, and it was I'M
inkable to mediate on turning
puth Europe into Labrador by
kw clever engineering works off
be Florida coast.
II may not be SO unthinkable to-
brow il our sinterventionists are
ERECT, Mr.. Hitler may soon have
inverted his cradle of our civiliza-
bn into an abomination and threat
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