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...thick that relatively few whaling expeditions bucked the pack, he found no less than 32 vessels at work. The Ross Sea whaling fleet is composed of big factory ships, each mothering a flock of chasers, each about the size of a small tugboat. The chasers scour the frigid waters until they spy a spouting whale, sneak up on it and let fly a harpoon bomb from a cannon. After the dead whale is pulled to the surface, it is inflated with air pumps, towed to the factory ship...
...less happy mission, into bitter, freezing weather. A Ford transport of Pan American-Grace Line had taken off from Santiago, Chile, with six passengers and a crew of three bound for Buenos Aires. Somewhere over the Andes in a winter blizzard the ship was lost. Hopelessly searchers tried to scour a storm-swept, chasm-striped area 220 mi. long, 150 mi. wide where the plane might have come down...
...Napoleon, swankiest cafe in Ajaccio, only one with a plate-glass screen to protect the customers on the terrace from the mistral. He ordered two bottles of Byrrh for the use of the staff, and spread out his maps. His troops were divided into three columns and sent to scour the island...
Next day 18 oxen were hitched to the bloated, floating body and it was hauled ashore. Soon Hubert was posthumously rechristened "Huberta." Posses were formed to scour the veldt for her murderer...
...Leming, Tex. 11-year-old Merle Springer had most of her clothes torn off and was stabbed 33 times with a penknife, so that she died in a ditch only 300 yd. from her home. A mammoth posse was organized last week to scour the countryside for her assailant...