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...idea. He persuaded the government to waive import taxes on scarce luxury goods sent to the Expedition Fund by overseas Danes. A hint to overseas Danes was enough. Back came a flood of canned pineapple, coconuts, cigarettes, honey. The gifts sold for $600,000 and paid for equipping the Galathea, an oceanographic research ship...
Last week the Galathea, bossed by Bruun, put into San Francisco after 18 months at sea. Her scientists had explored the least known places still left on earth: the "deeps" in the bottoms of the oceans...
Blind Seafood. The Galathea dragged the deepest deeps, using a tapering, one-piece steel cable 36,000 feet long. Up from the depths came mussels, worms, sea cucumbers and crustaceans. All were small, blind, and dead when they reached the surface, but they were proof that life can colonize even the hostile deeps...
...Philippines, other scientific fishermen were combing even deeper waters. Dr. Anton F. Bruun of the Danish research ship Galathea reported that there seems to be no limit to the depths that life can sink. His men dredged the bottom of the Mindanao trench, the deepest part (35,400 ft.) of the ocean, never explored before. They hauled up 17 sea anemones, 61 sea cucumbers, two mollusks and one crustacean. All were comparatively fragile creatures, but they did not seem to mind living in darkness and cold more than six miles down, where the water pressure is more than seven tons...
...Polypheme" is a poem taken from Theocritus's idyl on the jealousy of Polyphemus towards Galathea, and has proved to be one of the great successes of the Comedie Francaise" during the past few years...