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...compared and classified before it can be efficiently combated. Evolutionary changes, which only careful comparison can verify, have appeared in some species since the type specimen was first chosen, a century or two ago. And, though any curator can catch a Musca domestica (or housefly) in his own soup, he would probably give his right ear to have the original type. Among other items selected for bomb-sheltering from the Smithsonian collection (valued at $300,000,000 but irreplaceable, says one of its officers, at three times that figure...
...charges. Four men tried to launch a lifeboat, but it was no use: the explosions had wrecked the davits. Realizing that they would have to drop life rafts and jump after them into the numbing black water, the four sailors went to the galley and gulped hot coffee from soup ladles. From the store room they got heavy underwear and put on three suits apiece under their life jackets. Then they went overside...
Even the Pigeons. So hungry was Venice that the thousands of pigeons in famed St. Mark's Square were almost gone. Roman first-aid centers "cured" women and children who fainted in the streets by giving them bowls of hot soup. Donkeys were slaughtered and sold as "milk-fed veal." Prize buffaloes from the Pontine Marshes turned up as "high-grade beef." Bread was scarce, fats almost nonexistent. Vegetables were being exported to Germany to pay for coal. But coal was so scarce that convalescent soldiers shivered miserably in Turin's Royal Hospital of Charity...
...versatile soup-fin shark furnishes more than vitamins. Insulin can be obtained from his pancreas, and the devitaminized oil from the liver makes a superior lubricant...
When Guaragnella began buying soup-fin shark at $40 a ton, the fishing fleet thought he was crazy. But soon the secret was out and prices zoomed to $240, $500, $1,200 and finally, last fall, to $1,500 a ton. Fishermen went shark staring mad. With their 6,000-hook trawls and quarter-mile gill nets they hauled in as much as $3,800 a week and roared around the water fronts orie-eyed with Napa Valley...