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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 13, 1957

Page

11

Car sales hover near half a million monthly in 1959 outlook

Detroit AP report notes new passenger cars averaging over 500 000 monthly this year with six million annual volume considered normal. Analysts split on eight million year forecasts for the early 1960s as highway expansion could boost demand but not immediately.

Detroit

Whales Create Castinet Like Clicks Off North Carolina

Oceanographers aboard Atlantis recorded sperm whales off the North Carolina coast making rapid castinet like clicks. Researchers Worthington and Schevill describe the eerie whale sounds in Nature, noting the voyaging crew used an echo sounder to listen closely at close range.

New York Nature L. V. Worthington William E. Schevill Woods Hole Mass Oceanographic Institution North Carolina Atlantis Worthington

Whales Echo Sounds Studied by Atlantis Expedition

The crew recorded a smashing hammering like noise aboard a ship while whales were visible. A second low groan resembled a rusty hinge, lasting up to five seconds. Most common were rapid clicks up to 73 per graph. different whales added calls. Phonographic recordings matched echo findings, with Walter Worthington and Schevill noting recordings from a Woods Hole expedition.

Atlantis Worthington Schevill R. H. Backus Bear Woods Hole Cape Cod

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