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...Seeing at a distance one coral atoll belonging to the Republic of Mexico...
...merchants divided a $500,000 yearly payroll. Spongers from the Bahamas pried into the clear green waters with their long poles, brought up $375,000 worth of fine sponges each year. Shrimp fisheries boomed. And when Henry Morrison Flagler extended his Florida East Coast Railway on stilts across the coral keys in 1912, Key West was an important U. S. port handling cargoes that increased to $65,000,000 yearly...
...Coral or kernels of red corn to stop nose bleed or other hemorrhages...
...parts of a submerged reef well known to chartmakers jutting a few inches above water that they waded out to chip off samples. When they brought back their specimens to Instructor James H. Glasgow, University of Chicago graduate student, he stared at the stuff, decided it was white coral, sent it to university geologists who confirmed his opinion. Divers were sent to survey Lake Michigan's coral reef. It parallels the shore for 1,500 ft., is flat on top, evidently shaved off by Pleistocene glaciers. Mr. Glasgow ascribed it to the Silurian period-400,000,000 years...
From the Caroline Islands, that fine powder of islands lying in the West Pacific, the Japanese sampans point southward. They cross the Equator, weave through the maze of the East Indian Archipelago toward Australia's New Guinea and North Australia. In the shallow waters of the Coral Sea along the Great Barrier Reef, 1,000 mi. from home, they find what they want but it is in Australian waters. Long since, the Australian Government has protested to Tokyo via London against their poaching. But Japan had not the heart to discourage such energetic citizens. Last week Australia got ready...