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...Teitelbaum testimony was not the first mention of Oliphant's name in the flurry of Washington investigations. Testimony disclosed that he accompanied Theron Caudle on a deep-sea fishing flight to Florida, in the airplane of a man in tax trouble. After the trip, Caudle talked to Oliphant about a U.S. tax lien against their host's property, and the lien was removed. Oliphant had accepted one of those $100 cameras handed out to Government officials as a "goodwill" gesture by the now famed RFC client, American Lithofold Corp. The gift was arranged by James Finnegan, St. Louis...
...Navy reached back into history to find a fitting name for the atomic submarine now abuilding, and finding it, broke from its tidy modern-day custom of naming all submarines after deep-sea fish. The name of the atomic craft: U.S.S. Nautilus...
Another Caudle chum was Troy Whitehead, a Charlotte machinery manufacturer, whose private plane flew Caudle to Florida twice for deep-sea fishing. Once, Caudle got up the whole party, which included Charles Oliphant, counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. While these pleasant jaunts were going on, the U.S. was investigating Whitehead's tax status. Caudle said he had just a "faint recollection" that he might have telephoned Oliphant about removing a $40,000 tax lien the U.S. had against Whitehead's plant. That would have been "the most normal thing" to do, he said, since he talked...
Died. Henry Howard, 83, chemical engineer, inventor (89 patents) and yachtsman; of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. During World War I, he organized 7,000 drugstores as merchant marine enlistment centers, gained his greatest fame among amateur deep-sea sailors for his articles and books (Charting My Life) about his adventures aboard the yawl Alice...
...present nets are at most 15 ft. wide, but Dr. Hubbs plans to build one 50 ft. wide, and catch even bigger and faster deep-sea inhabitants. Such creatures are known to exist; sperm whales, for instance, live mainly on giant squid taken at great depths. There is a chance that the new net may catch such a squid...