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...once great and adventurous U.S. whaling industry, only a single station remains, near Eureka, Calif. But last week it had a new lease on life; with the opening of the whaling season, the station's whalers prowled the Pacific like men with a mission. Said Boss Whaler John R. Griggs, gazing pensively to sea: "There are a hell of a lot of whales out there...
Harvard's done it again! In a dusky and over-worked Physics B laboratory came the long-heralded "eureka," and a little spectacled man clenched in his fist the treatise proving the existence of the 93rd element. The strange thing about the new element is why didn't somebody think of it before. This, the one that Mendeleeff missed, has been given the formula Wo., and has been appropriately named Woman...
...Texan South's immediate wartime job is to get rubber out of the dense forests of the Orinoco valley. For this he will use a new version of Higgins' famed Eureka boat especially built for jungle rivers. Already he has 25 of these boats ready to go. They will cut down the time from Puerto Ayacucho to Ciudad Bolivar from a hazardous ten days by canoe to 24 hours by Eureka-and carry a hundred times as much each trip...
STANFIELD M. MAJOR Eureka...
...Eureka landing boats, which, A.J. likes to say, could have accomplished the Dunkirk evacuation in less than half the time the British took...