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...went into shark-hunting on a commercial scale, Sharkman Young strung 600-ft. nets along the ocean floor. A shark never turns back. Stopped by a net, it rolls over & over until it is hopelessly entangled. After chemists learned some 15 years ago how to remove the prickly, flint-like denticle from a shark's tough hide, the shark leather industry began to grow. Sharkman Young has spent most of his time since then supplying raw material. With millions of sharks to be had for the taking, he thinks the shark business has a big future. Shark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Birth in a Bat House | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...Broad Compromise -- 1st. T. L. M. Park; 2nd. L. B. Flint, Jr. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Close Sprint Races Mark Final Events of Brilliant 2-Day Summer School Regatta | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

...Narrow Comp so far are P. B. Beal, O. H. Emmons, R. M. Farlow, B. L. Fairbanks, E. H. Pringle, A. G. Webster, and H. A. White, Broad Compromise Race has atracted the following: G. A. Emerson, Jr., S. B. Flint, W. J. Keville, J. A. McAllen, J. P. Riesman, P. D. Rowan, and C. P. Ware...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 46 ENTRANTS SO FAR IN REGATTA | 8/1/1933 | See Source »

Three hundred members of the Otter Tail County Farmers' Holiday Association last week clumped into the county courthouse in Fergus Falls, Minn, to stop the foreclosure sale of a farm owned by one Abraham Matson. Leading the crowd marched a public-spirited Unitarian clergyman, Rev. John Flint, 50, outraged that the auction was to take place even though Farmer Matson was home sick. When County Coroner Curtis, substituting as auctioneer for recently deceased County Sheriff O. J. Tweten, put the customary question, "Is there any objection to conducting this sale?" 300 barnyard voices bellowed "Yes!" Coroner Curtis promptly granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pie in the Sky | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

Without comment Coroner Flint called the next witness, a lawyer representing Hugo Voss's estranged brother Albert Jr., who told a story that set.every neck a-crane in the little courtroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dr. Voss | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

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