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How whales breathe is a subject which has interested Scientist Alec H. Laurie of London. Aboard a floating whale oil factory off South Georgia, Antarctica, he sampled and studied the lungs and blood of scores of fresh-killed blue whales. He has reported his findings to Nature. Since whales are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Bends for Whales | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

Samarang (Bennie F. Zeldman) is a thin slice of life among the Malay pearl divers, made by Ward Wing and his wife. Lori Bara, sister of Theda Bara. When they went to Samarang, the Wings were fortunate enough to find, first of all, a native girl too poor to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 10, 1933 | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

Last week a U. S. Coast Guard destroyer steamed out beyond the Virginia Capes to police another exciting treasure hunt. Goal was the Merida, sunk in 210 ft. of water in 1911 with bullion and jewels in her vaults. In the Salvor, backed by Vincent Astor & friends, Captain Harry L...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Undersea Gold | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

Not one flyer could President Roosevelt last week find on the list of fleet officers from which the Navy's General Board had asked him to choose a successor to the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett as Chief of its Bureau of Aeronautics. He delighted Navy airmen by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: King for Moffett | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Suspected cause of the explosion was a sudden giving-away of the boat's 26-year-old boilers, though they had passed official inspection two months before. But also two months ago a local ironworkers' union had complained that the boat was undermanned, overcrowded, unseaworthy. Four separate investigations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Second Greatest | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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