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...only bad news from the Pacific last week was the soup-fin shark shortage. After scouring the oceans since the Silurian Age, sharks seemed to be disappearing from the West Coast. The 400 to 500 West Coast fishing boats searching for soup-fin sharks from Seattle to Mexico roamed as far afield as the Navy would let them. But their winter haul (worth over $6 million in a good year) was less than 50% of 1943's catch...
Shark fishing became big business in 1938 when "Tano" Guaragnella, a fin-sharp San Francisco fish broker, sent a soup-fin shark liver to a chemist, learned that the livers of Galeorhinus zyopterus are the richest known source of Vitamin...
When Guaragnella ranged the fish docks offering $40 a ton for soup-fin sharks that fishermen had been glad to sell to fish-meal grinders for $10, his competitors figured he had gone shark-shearing mad. But when his secret leaked out, the price soared to $1,500 a ton. By last year, the quantity of soup-fin livers had risen from 40,000 Ib. in 1937 to 1.4 million...
...Soup. Last week at Chung-king's foreign press conference, the Chinese Government, stung by the Perry incident and a scorching New York Times editorial, made reply. Spokesman was the ablest of China's three governmental mouthpieces-young Dr. P. H. Chang, who speaks for the cabinet. Dr. Chang blithely kissed off the controversy as a misunderstanding. A poor translation had made the regulations read as if the supervisors were "to guide and control thought and conduct"; actually the correct translation was "to guide the thoughts and control the actions of students abroad." As for the training...
...molecules in a room might collect under a table, leaving the rest of the room a vacuum. Or (a somewhat less unlikely possibility) a group of molecules might fall into an introverted pattern of collisions that would concentrate energy at a particular point. In that case, a bowl of soup might spill itself or a highball might spontaneously begin to boil...