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Austin B. Mason, Jr., chairman of the Smoker Committee, said last night that the outcome of he poll was a "fine indication" of the spirit of the class, and predicted that class support would make the affair "a whale of a show...
Next day the storm blew out as quickly as it had blown up, went whirling down the coast to batter California. There rain fell in whale-sized tubfuls: San Diego, which normally gets only three inches in the entire last half of the year, got more than that in a single day last week. At Salinas Airport, workmen anchored an iron hangar to four ten-ton ice trucks to keep it from blowing away. At a beach near San Francisco, waves slammed 100 feet beyond high water mark, knocked three houses off their underpinnings. Ten Coastguardsmen...
...Pole, plotted out by Captain Roald Amundsen when he reached the bottom of the world in 1911. But in January, King Haakon VII brought the coast between the disputed Falkland quadrant and the Australian section under the Norwegian flag, to clinch a twelve-year mapping job backed by Norwegian Whale Tycoon Lars Christensen. Last month impatient Little Führer Vidkun Quisling made up for all lost time by announcing outright Norwegian ownership of the whole Antarctic...
...Killer whales, 25 to 30 ft. long, are the wolves of the sea. Dr. Andrews had heard that killers relish the tongues of other and bigger whales, often tear them out alive. He never believed it until he saw it done. Off the coast of Korea, a pack of killers bore down on a herd of California grey whales, which are about 50 ft. long. The greys were paralyzed with terror. "I watched a grey whale turn on its back with flippers outspread and lie helpless at the surface. Rushing at full speed, a killer put his nose against...
...last century the childlike Eskimos of Alaska, fascinated by the white man's guns, began shooting walrus and caribou with more enthusiasm than discretion. That, plus annual fluctuations in the whale catch, caused recurrent famine years. So in 1892, a notable famine year, a Presbyterian missionary named Sheldon Jackson, backed by Quaker funds, undertook an experiment in practical ecology, which is the science that relates living organisms to their environment. Reindeer were imported from Siberia into Alaska for the Eskimos' benefit. Unlike its close relative the caribou of Alaska, the Siberian reindeer is easily domesticated. It was figured...