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...verse of a parody of Casey Jones which China-Burma-India pilots sing: Old 87 was a pile of junk After too many hours over the Hump With her flap handle busted And her gear stove in And a great big dent in her vertical fin...
...Mangano kept craning back over his shoulder. As the machine moved along Blue Island Avenue on the dingy West Side he said: "I think there's a squad car after us. We better see what they want." He braked his car to a stop, said, "Give me a fin to talk to them with," accepted a five-dollar bill from Big Mike, and climbed...
Tail-Up and Level. The wingspread is 141 ft. 2 in., the fuselage length 98 ft., and the single tail fin (which has a strong family resemblance to the B-17's familiar tail fin) is 27 ft. high. The Superfortress departs' from previous Fortress custom in having tricycle landing gear -three sets of twin wheels-so that its fuselage, like that of the tricycle-geared Liberator, is tail-up and level on the ground...
Shark fishing became big business in 1938 when "Tano" Guaragnella, a fin-sharp San Francisco fish broker, sent a soup-fin shark liver to a chemist, learned that the livers of Galeorhinus zyopterus are the richest known source of Vitamin...
When Guaragnella ranged the fish docks offering $40 a ton for soup-fin sharks that fishermen had been glad to sell to fish-meal grinders for $10, his competitors figured he had gone shark-shearing mad. But when his secret leaked out, the price soared to $1,500 a ton. By last year, the quantity of soup-fin livers had risen from 40,000 Ib. in 1937 to 1.4 million...