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...with the property-familiar in several forms of bacteria-of "fixing" nitrogen. These enable the whale to absorb almost twice the proportion of nitrogen in its blood that a human being can. They save him-when he surfaces swiftly after sounding deep- from the pain and dizziness called caisson disease or "the bends" experienced by human deep-sea divers, in whose veins bubbles of nitrogen form when they come up too fast...
...line in two, escaped. The party agreed that the fish "looked like a sturgeon, had a mouth like a catfish, leaped like a tarpon, pulled like a whale." Next morning Congressman McClintic turned up at his office with bandaged hands. Said he: "I'm through with deep-sea fishing. An old bullhead and sun-perch man, with a reputation for veracity, ought never to have taken it up in the first place...
...Washington Navy Yard last week sailed the Gloucester fishing schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud, carrying 20 deep-sea skippers to the capital to petition the Tariff Commission for higher fish duties. Up to the Navy Yard to greet them, as one good sailor to another, drove President Roosevelt. With him was Britain's Prime Minister. They had just returned from a day's cruise on the Sequoia...
...grease and sold at a profit of $3,000,000 per year but the slump in grease prices ended that idea. Within the year a Boston man nibbled at New York's garbage output with a proposition to dry it out for fertilizer, but nothing came of that. Deep-sea dumping costs the city...
...Challenger set sail from Ports-mouth, England, on her memorable voyage. Thenceforth, with every fresh venture below the surface of the sea, such a flood of new facts came pouring in that it seemed for a time as though this fact catching could never lose its novelty. One great deep-sea expedition led to another and more was learned about the sea during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century than had been during the preceding three thousand...