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...only by the harpoons of Indians and Eskimos. On Pribilof only "bachelor seals" (males under seven years old) are killed. North Atlantic seals are fatter than those on Pribilof, are covered with coarse brown hair instead of fur, and lead a harder life. Each winter they swim 1,000 mi. into the Arctic, where they become food, fuel and clothing for Eskimos. Each spring they swim down to bear their young on the Labrador ice fields, be clubbed by Newfoundlanders, become soap, pocketbooks, slippers and knicknacks for citizens...
Feted in every port, they got their biggest reception in Venezuela. There old Dictator-President Juan Vicente Gomez declared a public holiday, motored them over 300 mi. of flower-strewn highway, spent $20,000 out of his own pocket to give them a luncheon and ball, pay all their expenses...
...Tavatui on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains, 1,000 mi. east of little Fraser, the station master decided it was all right to switch a freight train on to the through track, if he closed the semaphore signal. In the opposite direction a local passenger train roared into view. The engineer in the cab ran through the semaphore, head on into the freight train. Result: 33 dead, 68 injured. Last week in nearby Sverdlovsk a Red Court sentenced engineer and station master to be shot dead. Five others of the train and station crews got prison terms...
...Grace Airways is jointly and equally owned by Pan American Airways and W. R. Grace & Co. (bankers & shippers). It flies the west coast route and the trans-Andean jump in the parent air company's great South American loop. Last week it had flown nearly 5,000,000 mi., crossed the Andes safely 1,200-odd times...
...Last month's Army crashes increased the current year's total to only 39. From Mitchel Field, piloting his own observation plane, the General proceeded to Newark Airport, to Cleveland, to Chicago, to St. Louis. He found two-way radios with ranges up to 400 mi. were being installed on Army planes. Landing lights were being attached. Beacon signals were being improved and a teletype weather reporting system was nearly com plete. Old-type observation ships were being outfitted with artificial horizons, di rectional gyroscopes, new compasses and flight instruments. Work was progressing feverishly on new bombers...