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...sharks had been deeply offended. A boat had towed two cloth bags full of the Navy's new shark repellent all around the net. The concoction's smell was so revolting to the sharks that they lost interest in the mackerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sharks Don't Like It | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

Dream of Eating. They caught two small fish and once Zamperini grabbed a baby shark by its tail and flipped it into the raft. By the same kind of desperate alertness they caught three small birds and four albatrosses which lit innocently on their rubber boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Endurance of Lou Zamperini | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...workers to its new 550 m.p.h. jet fighter, the Shooting Star. Though cut back, Lockheed will still turn out 40 a month, biggest production of any Army fighter. On top of its backlog in military orders, they have a whopping $150,000,000 in civilian orders for their shark-sleek transport, the Constellation, and other commercial planes. And they still have an ace up their sleeve: the super-transport, the Constitution, which reportedly will carry 157 passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Planemakers' Prospects | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

Peaceable as a reformed shark, the 1,600-ton U-234 nosed meekly into New Hampshire's Piscataqua River and disgorged the cargo of the week. Aboard the sleek Nazi submarine, which may have been headed for Japan, were: 1) cold-eyed, natty Lieut. General Ulrich Kessler of the German air force; 2) a mysterious civilian in a wrinkled raincoat and baggy suit, clutching a bulging cardboard suitcase; 3) two minor Luftwaffe officers and five German naval officers and technicians; 4) some interesting metal dispatch boxes apparently full of papers and armament blueprints. Missing were the bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Gangsters' End | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...shark had bitten a thin slab off the top of the right forearm. On the under side were teeth marks, half an inch deep. Back on the raft, Nagurney had his arm bandaged, but he was not finished. A lieutenant (j.g.) had become delirious and had taken a swag of sea water. Nagurney pounced on him, rammed his finger down the officer's throat to make him vomit. The lieutenant bit Nagurney's finger. Nagurney's summation: "I guess I'm the only guy that's ever been bit by a shark and an officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Perils of the Sea | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

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