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The advent of "moon mining" by no means signaled the end of submarine mining, and Nazi death-layers above and below the surface were believed to be collaborating, laying mines of several types, from little (200-lb.) but potent "footballs," of which a big seaplane might be able to carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Black Moons | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Young Sebastian Bannon, who likes the sea better than Harvard Law School, ships aboard the Gloucester halibut-trawler Susan Dillon for the winter voyage, greenest of a crew of unanimous goldenhearts. Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Banks Romance | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Lungfish are evolutionary survivors of the Devonian period (300-400 million years ago) when many forward-looking fish were experimenting with lungs. The lungfish are related to those intrepid pioneers which crawled up on land to become ancestors of reptiles, mammals and birds; also to the Coelacanths, which had fins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Champion Laggard | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

In an interview in Chungking, China's gentle Premier Dr. H. H. Kung asked the U. S. some pertinent if rhetorical questions: "Why should Japan build a great Navy if her territorial ambitions are confined to China? Why should they have established in the United States, Panama and elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Straight from the Mouth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Sportsman Heilner's opus may prove as valuable a handbook for duck hunters as his Salt Water Fishing has been for big-game anglers. Packed between its covers-in addition to his memoirs and 150 pages of photographs-are: a guide for identification of 58 species of ducks and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ducks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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