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...song shark's most familiar bait is a small ad along these lines: "Send us your poems for expert criticism. You may have a song hit. Upon acceptance, we edit, publish, record your song and bring it to the attention of bands and broadcasting studios...
When they took refuge in riverside cabins, the night was made hideous by the "howls, wails and shrieks" of the Yukon's "coal-eyed, shark-faced shrews"-three-inch rodents which eagerly devoured one another. Natives told the appalled young couple about the man who had died in his cabin and not been found for seven months. Rescuers who lifted his body found it "as light as ashes. The shrews had gone in from the cheeks and down inside, hollowing...
...Shark fishing became big business in 1938 when "Tano" Guaragnella, a fin-sharp San Francisco fish broker, sent a soup-fin shark liver to a chemist, learned that the livers of Galeorhinus zyopterus are the richest known source of Vitamin...
When Guaragnella ranged the fish docks offering $40 a ton for soup-fin sharks that fishermen had been glad to sell to fish-meal grinders for $10, his competitors figured he had gone shark-shearing mad. But when his secret leaked out, the price soared to $1,500 a ton. By last year, the quantity of soup-fin livers had risen from 40,000 Ib. in 1937 to 1.4 million...
California Packing Corp., Washington Laboratories, Halibut Liver Oil Producers and vitamin-conscious Borden Co. have become big buyers and processors of shark livers. Borden shark-fishing boats are busy off the West Coast of North America and as far south as Chile. Early in April Borden moved into the Gulf, through its purchase of Shark Fisheries, Inc. and Shark Industries, Inc., including a small vitamin-processing plant at Salerno, Fla. This plant will become its base for a vast shark-fishing operation in the Caribbean. If necessary to meet the U.S. demand for 149 trillion U.S.P. units of vitamin...