Word: chaser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whales that were left (small ones and cows with their young) was prohibited. Largest taken the whole cruise was 49 feet long, 14 feet above the minimum. Captain & crew were tempted to kill undersize whales. According to Lieutenant Midtlyng, they did. Each day the high-bowed, gun-mounted chaser boats set out, each night returned, tugging their targets behind...
...worth in a theatre. 2) Aside from its new sphere of operations, the Navy's chief interest remains what it always has been: romance, in this case between the daughter (Nancy Kelly) of a freighter's captain and a daring young engineer (Richard Greene*) on the submarine chaser S.C. 599, assigned to convoy the freighter through the Mediterranean. Result of the combination is to make Submarine Patrol, forcefully directed by John Ford, the season's liveliest adventure film. Good sequence: the wooden S.C. 599 nosing through a mine field to blow up a U-boat...
...meteorites are worth money as scientific exhibits. Harvey Harlow Nininger of Denver, indefatigable meteorite-chaser-and-broker, usually pays a rate of $1 per pound for these fragments, sometimes more for unusually fine specimens (TIME, July 5, 1937). Dr. Nininger was vacationing in New England last week, apparently biding his time until the lost pallasite was actually found. But anybody could figure that at his base rate the meteorite would bring...
...Chaser (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Remake of a 1933 exposé of ambulance-chasing lawyers-notable, if at all, for Lewis Stone's performance as the shyster hero's whiskey-toping doctor...
Metcalf disclosed that when he ar- rived, one book in every ten dominated was "not on the shelf," but that since he had appointed a special chaser is handle these "N. O. S." cases, only one book in forty could not be located when asked for. Even this was inefficient, he declared, and for that reason he did not favor more general use of the stacks...