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...Barrier Reef, 1,000 mi. from home, they find what they want but it is in Australian waters. Long since, the Australian Government has protested to Tokyo via London against their poaching. But Japan had not the heart to discourage such energetic citizens. Last week Australia got ready a fleet of fast motorboat patrols to catch the heavy-engined sampans from the north...
...Paul Cadmus of New York took the Government shilling and turned out a painting entitled "The Fleet's In." It is alleged to show the jolly tars rolling about with harlots and booze, in the popular tradition of all good sailors on shore leave. It was judged good enough to be given a place in the cross-section of CWA art to be displayed at the Corcoran gallery in Washington...
...successfully complete the course are given the designation "Naval Aviators" and receive commissions as Ensigns in the U. S. Naval Reserve or as Second Lieutenants in the Marine Corps Reserve, and may be ordered to active duty. Those in the Naval Reserve take their active duty with the Fleet, usually on an aircraft carrier, while the Marine Corps Reservists serve with the Marine Expeditionary Forces at Quantico, Virginia, or San Diego, California...
Newfoundland law forbids the sealing fleet to put out until March 8, when the seals' whelping season is over. Then St. John's sends the ships off, each jammed by 100 to 300 swilers, with cheers, bunting, band music and cannon fire. Swilers work on shares and the trip to the seal herds is a bitter race. Arrived, the swilers swarm out over the ice with their long, hooked gaffs, begin bashing in seals' skulls right & left. Swilers never shoot seals, except in self-defense against an angry, sharp-toothed male, but they sometimes make...
Eight ships went up this year, against six last year, and the catch has been the best in a decade. By last week, with the hunt almost over, 190,000 sculps were piled in stinking holds. Captain Kean can remember when the fleet brought back 700,000 sculps in a good season, but yearly slaughter has dwindled the herds. Some naturalists view this destruction with alarm, but Newfoundlanders say that if they did not keep the herds down the seals would eat up all their cod, capelin and herring...