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...trigger fingers and the palms of western cougar hunters itched at the news. For the biggest cougar kill of the season (eight cats-in nine days), Jesse Stockdale and his son Url, of Twisp, Wash, this week got a $400 bounty check-$50 a carcass-from the State Game Department...
Whale's Tale. In Weekapaug, R.I., a dead whale drifted ashore. After calling the Coast Guard (but the whale did not interfere with navigation), the Army (but the whale was not an invasion), town fathers classed the carcass as refuse, called their garbage collector...
...thick with rust. The once-elaborate captain's cabin is a mess of shattered furniture, moldering linoleum. The cork-lined deckhead is caving in. ... The wooden deck is pocked with the borings of teredos (shipworms). . . . From her opened hatches comes the nauseating odor of gases. Inside her foul carcass are rotting vegetables, meats, ship's supplies, human bodies. ... In the horrible, blackened wreckage of the crew's quarters you can still see a few grey bones...
...When farmers give up infected cows for slaughter, the Government pays them about ?4, but the carcass belongs to the Government...
...torpedo had blasted Wajda's ship, a U.S. merchantman, at night; shellfire pummeled her carcass. Shell fragments got Wajda in the head and ankle, rolled him overboard like a sack. He came to on a pitching raft where ship's Engineers Mahlon Benton and Lindgren Bancroft had dragged him. They rigged a sail of two big yellow quarantine flags, dressed Wajda's wounds, doled him out a supply of chocolate and hardtack...