Word: compressor
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...compressor chamber of the No. 1 engine, investigators found what they were looking for: bits of flesh and feathers from starlings. Starling remains were also found in the No. 2 engine; the innards of No. 3 and No. 4 had not yet been examined. But flesh-eating crabs were found in the nacelles of all four engines, suggesting that they had been scavenging starling remains...
...Bureau of Commercial Fisheries was planning a dirty scientific trick to play on schools of herring and menhaden off the Maine coast last week. At Boothbay Harbor, Me., the 139-ft. "pogy" (menhaden) boat Rappahannock is fitted with a 52-h.p. compressor that delivers 196 cu. ft. of air at the pressure of 80 lbs. per sq. in. The idea is to shoot the air through perforated tubes sunk in the water near schools of fish. Curtains of bubbles rising from the perforations look to the fish like an impassable barrier and shoo them toward the Rappahannock...