Word: blubbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coal was getting scarce in his little hospital. However, Eskimos piled whale and walrus blubber at the back door in case blubber was needed for fuel.* Airplanes brought Dr. Greist canned milk for his patients and some serums. By wireless he informed the interested world that the three other white men and two trained nurses at Point Barrow were helping bring the epidemic under control...
...Andrews and James Lippitt Clark, another youngster who later became a crack field man for the Museum, went out to Amagansett where the carcass had been beached. The whalers took the blubber and the scientists bought the rest for $3,200. The skeleton remained imbedded in 50 tons of flesh. The weather was bitter cold...
...checking over their chart the museum men discovered that two extremely important bones were missing: the thin little pelvic bones with vestigial thigh bones which show that 60 or 70 million years ago whales had serviceable legs. Andrews and Clark sprinted to the try works where the blubber had already been plumped into a cauldron, fished around until the two little bones were retrieved...
...factory ships like the Sir James Clark Ross or the 25,000-ton Kosmos swallow the whale through a port in the stern and haul the carcass on deck. There flensers with knives as big as hoes strip the blubber, which produces the highest grade of oil. Power saws reduce the skeleton to handy chunks which can be tossed into steam digesters. In some ships the meat is canned (largely for Japanese consumption) and what scraps remain are ground or burned for fertilizer. For "whalebone," which is not bone but gargantuan mouth bristles, there is now almost no market...
...with a U. S. company, toured France on a bicycle, returned on a cattle boat, performed in television. RKO's Are These Our Children? was his first picture. To emphasize his youthful appearance, he seldom has a haircut and sometimes shows a tendency, wisely controlled in Life Begins, to blubber...