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...only bad news from the Pacific last week was the soup-fin shark shortage. After scouring the oceans since the Silurian Age, sharks seemed to be disappearing from the West Coast. The 400 to 500 West Coast fishing boats searching for soup-fin sharks from Seattle to Mexico roamed as far afield as the Navy would let them. But their winter haul (worth over $6 million in a good year) was less than 50% of 1943's catch...
...time-honored list of things which U.S. politicians may be counted upon to denounce relentlessly-the housefly, the common cold, the man-eating shark-Washington's Senator Homer Bone in 1937 added cancer. When he introduced a bill for a National Cancer Institute, it bore the sponsoring signatures of 94 Senators. (The other two hastened to add theirs before the bill came to a vote.) Last fortnight Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark hit on something which politicians almost as unanimously favor. He introduced a veterans' benefits bill, jointly sponsored by 80 other Senators. Last week, amid plaints...
...hoarded cash for postwar rehabilitation. New trains and tracks will be needed by the railway. The ocean fleet, now acknowledged to have lost the 42,348-ton world-cruise liner Empress of Britain in the North Atlantic and the plucky 21,517-ton Empress of Canada in the shark-infested waters off West Africa, must be rebuilt to restore prewar transatlantic and Pacific services. The airline, providing Ottawa does not choke it off entirely in favor of Canada's "chosen instrument" T.C.A., will need new planes and bases for routes extending from the U.S. border to the Arctic Circle...
Democrat Abe Murdock of Utah thrust like a shark at this vulnerable opening. "I know it is the prayer in his heart, and it is the prayer in the heart of every other good, old, stand-pat Republican in the United States today . . . that Franklin D. Roosevelt would eliminate himself from politics and give them at least a shadow of a chance to bring in the Grand Old Party again. But I say to them . . . the American people still want Roosevelt...
...daylight precision bombing, had fought long and successfully for that American theory of air attack. Few of his friends could doubt that he must be deeply disappointed at departing now, just when he had built his air force to the point of wrecking key German industries, with billiards-shark precision. In their long-distance strategic operations, both Eaker and Doolittle will be under Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz, another American member of Eisenhower's old Mediterranean team. A member of that team as yet unaccounted for is Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, the R.A.F.'s great expert...