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...Harpoon. The conferees adopted a five-point program: 1) free and open worldwide air competition, subject to reasonable Federal regulation; 2) private ownership and management; 3) Federal encouragement of a worldwide air transport system; 4) worldwide freedom of transit in peaceful flight; 5) acquisition by the U.S. of the civil and commercial outlets required in the public interest...
Last week the House voted on the next move of the President's Thousand-and-One-Steps-to-War policy: repeal of the Neutrality Act's Section 6, which forbids U.S. merchant ships to have any armament greater than a captain's pistol or a harpoon gun. On the morning the bill came to a vote, Sam Rayburn got a further break: the U.S.S. Kearny was torpedoed...
...Arctic coast today an Eskimo village of even 250 folk can catch scarcely enough seals, whales, caribou to live on. What these ancient Alaskans ate is all the more puzzling because they seem to have lacked such Arctic weapons as the Eskimo harpoon...
Most people think of the Moby Dick era as the heyday of whaling, but whaling did not actually reach slaughterhouse efficiency with floating factories and motor launch harpoon-gunning until the 20th Century. In the three centuries from 1620 to 1920 the average whale catch was about 3,000 a year. In the 1937-38 season 54,664 whales (yielding 615,500 tons of oil) were taken, the greatest number in history. Writing in Science recently, Dr. Murphy observed that during the 1938-39 season a record kill may again have been perpetrated, but there were so many ships...
...outset that they were experts at telling the length of a whale in the water, they now argued: "It's difficult to tell how long they are." Then they told him that they found the whales "dead and floating." When Midtlyng pointed out that the dead whales bore harpoon marks, the whalers had no comeback...