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...just read with inward amusement of the wrath and indignation of our esteemed former Admiral Hugh Rodman, U.S.N., in connection with artist Paul Cadmus' painting The Fleet's In, as described in the Art department of TIME, April...
...copy of the Panama American, "An Independent Daily Morning Newspaper." These two examples of "frank and progressive" journalism caused no little additional amusement, coming as two bits of printed evidence on top of the mass of occurrences I have witnessed personally in many different ports whenever "The Fleet's In." In spite of Admiral Rodman's indignation it is only too obvious that Artist Paul Cadmus' painting is truly depicted, not only on Riverside Drive, but wherever the fleet is on shore leave...
Operating costs are so high that a factory ship and its fleet of chasers must average a whale a day to break even. The average blue whale produces about 100 barrels of oil worth around $1,000. World production rose from 1,300,000 bbl. in the 1928-29 season to 3,600,000 bbl. in the 1930-31 season. This was more than the world could use either in soap or in European margarine. So in 1931-32 most of the Antarctic companies declared a whaling holiday and production dropped to 775,000 bbl. In the season just closed...
...regions where they had been plying their regular trade for years. When Admiral Byrd went into the Ross Sea in 1929, when the ice was so thick that relatively few whaling expeditions bucked the pack, he found no less than 32 vessels at work. The Ross Sea whaling fleet is composed of big factory ships, each mothering a flock of chasers, each about the size of a small tugboat. The chasers scour the frigid waters until they spy a spouting whale, sneak up on it and let fly a harpoon bomb from a cannon. After the dead whale is pulled...
...served on the U. S. S. Princeton in the Spanish American War, as a staff officer in the World War. Since then he has held many a sonorous title of high command: Director of Naval Intelligence, Naval Attache at the American Embassy, Commander of Destroyer Squadrons in the Battle Fleet, Director of Fleet Training, Vice Admiral in Command of Battleships, Admiral in Command of the Battle Force. The grandsons of Adam Gimbel Bavarian Jew who set up as storekeeper in Vincennes, Ind. in 1842, now control one of the largest department store chains in the U. S. Gimbel Brothers...