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...Animals and fish periodically thrive and decline. Many, notably lynx and salmon in Canada, have a cycle that averages nine and two-thirds years. A peak in elephants comes about every 62 years. Mice in the U.S. fluctuate in a four-year cycle; a plague sets them back every presidential-election year...
Before he visited Japan in 1934, Patric lived for three months in the U.S. the way a poor Japanese lives in Japan. This was to save money for the trip, and also to condition himself for Japanese life. He slept in the front seat of his car, ate canned salmon heated on the exhaust manifold (food cost: 25? a day), pressed his trousers by using the running board and a towel for the ironing board; alto gether saved $375. Then he worked his way across the U.S. to his native North west, stopped at the Nippon Yusen Kaisha office...
...Japs had expected a long stay on Attu. Their food supplies were ample: shrimp and crab meat and bamboo shoots, spices and soy sauce and dried black seaweed for flavoring rice. They varied this diet by catching salmon and halibut, shooting Emperor geese and Yukon River ducks. They had hundreds of gallons of sake...
...whatever they could find - caterpillars, grubs, toads, snakes, lizards. Resourceful, they grew some of their own food by planting small gardens of taro and kaukau (something like yams). When they could, they killed game like cassowary or ratite bird, but meat was a rarity. Once they found some canned salmon that had washed ashore from a sunken Jap supply ship. For ten long, horrifying months they fought sickness and hid from Japs in New Britain's jungle. Last week the world learned that by sheerest luck they had been rescued...
...seemed that Marvin Collins' luck was on the mend. Officers sent him to a U.S. base hospital somewhere in India and the dentists furnished him a set of teeth. Collins beamed as he boarded the train for New Delhi. But after he tested his teeth on canned salmon he got sick, leaned out the train window, lost salmon and teeth, too. Last week the Army newspaper, Roundup, was crusading for "Teeth for Collins." They thought this time it might be worked through British dentists, on reverse Lend-Lease...