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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motor road along the west shore of the lake, the monster was first "seen." Eyewitnesses during the following season ranged from hard-bitten big game hunters to impressionable lady schoolteachers. Their descriptions of the beast varied in detail but agreed roughly that it was 40 to 50 ft. long with a large whiskery head and eight humps; that it could travel 40 m.p.h. up & down the lake, prudently keeping at least 100 yd. from shore. On the east shore, a large pudgy "footprint" was found. Scientists entering the discussion opined that it was: 1) an elephant seal that had slipped...
...necessity of shipping an enormous volume of freight in an eight-month navigation season has compelled not only efficiency at Great Lakes ports but economy in Great Lakes ship design. Distinctive Lakes craft, introduced in 1906, is the standard 600-ft. bulk freighter, which resembles nothing so much as a huge steam barge with a minimum of upper-works fore & aft, engines and smokestack so far aft as to seem astern...
...Town" in sailing days, Manitowoc has turned out $20,000,000 worth of shipping since the present company was founded in 1904, is now engaged on a $1,250,000 tanker for Standard Oil of Indiana. Soon after May 1, American Shipbuilding Co. will lay keels for two 600-ft. freighters, first to be built on the Lakes in six years...
...only animal which can produce electricity. No insect, no bird, no other mammal can, but five fishes are living dynamos. Of these the biggest and most potent is the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), a wormish monster which lives in the freshwater marshes of northern South America, grows over 8 ft. long and thick as a man's thigh, can send a shock through 28 ft. of water and stun the largest animal, including...
Last week electric eels made news when from Belem, Brazil it was reported that a party of U. S. scientists had caught one 3 ft. long with a potential of 380 volts, more than triple the common U. S. house current. Electric eels have produced up to 500 volts. Local Indians long ago recognized the nature of the eel's shocking power, naming the creature puraque, derived from their word for lightning bolt. But civilized man, in the Age of Electricity, though he understands the source of the firefly's light does not know how Electrophorus becomes electric...