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Naked Sea (RKO Radio). Any simpleton knows how to get tuna out of a can, but it takes a special sort of chucklehead to get it out of the ocean. Anybody who sees this picture, made by Allen H. Miner and Gerald Schnitzer on a West Coast tuna clipper, will soon see why. He will also see a handsome piece of movie journalism, and so many fish that when he describes the catch his wife will hurry to fix him a cup of black coffee...
...crew must "scoop" for "chum," i.e., make a haul for anchovetas, to be used for bait. When at last the net makes a full purse, the ship heads for fishing grounds. A few days later, the porpoise shoal and the water birds fluster wildly overhead-the signs of tuna below...
About eight years ago, the company decided that lack of food is not the factor that limits guano bird population. The cold Pacific off Peru is incredibly rich in life; besides such large items as tuna and whale, it contains about 25 million tons of anchovetas, the six-inch fish that is the favorite food of the birds. The company decided that the chief reason why the birds did not increase to the limit of their abundant food supply was that their small islands were overcrowded and not in the right places for harvesting fish efficiently. The birds cannot normally...
...Japanese expect these contracts will lower her annual trade deficit by $40 million, mostly by more sales to the U.S. of Japanese cameras, binoculars, tuna, chinaware and toys...
...butter necessity of working in commercials. Home solved the problem by moving Arlene in front of a plain backdrop whenever it was time to deliver the hard sell, and she switched effortlessly from the wonders of Washington to the durability of Latex paint or the tastiness of Star-Kist tuna...