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...Wolf. In Victoria, Australia, a 15-foot shark, spotted swimming up & down outside the women's baths, was finally caught by a knowing zoologist, who used as bait a piece of pork carved in the shape of a-woman...
This would make Lockheed a colossus with eight plants, some 44,000 employes, and a $500,000,000 backlog of orders. The deal had more than mere bigness. It was a shrewd move by both planemakers: their products would fit together like clasped hands. Among them were the shark-bodied Constellation; the fat-bellied Constitution; the six-engined XB-36, the "flying cigar"; the Shooting Star. There would be civilian models, from four-seater personal planes to 400-passenger transports; for the Army & Navy everything from "Flying Jeeps" to four-engined jet bombers...
Nabetari and his friend sailed on alone for many days and nights. The days became weeks and the weeks became months, and still there was no sign of land. All this time Nabetari kept alive by catching fish.* When there was no rain he drank shark's blood. His friend had his arm bitten off when he was trying to catch a shark. Afterwards the friend died...
...South Sea native's method of catching fish without equipment requires tremendous agility: one hand is dangled in the water, and when the shark or other fish makes a pass, the native grabs it with the other hand...
Farmer George Boeshore looked up. The big four-motored, shark-bodied plane had passed & repassed over his father's farm all day, practicing landings at the nearby Reading, (Pa.) airport. But this time something was wrong. A plume of black smoke trailed from the plane, then burst into red flame. Farmer Boeshore saw the big craft drop into a glide and head for the field two miles away...