Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into New York Harbor last week steamed the second biggest whaling ship afloat, the 22,000-ton S. S. Sir James Clark Ross. In her hold was the largest cargo of whale oil ever to enter the port-a 45,000,000-lb. consignment for Procter & Gamble to use in its soaps. Five months in the Antarctic whaling grounds and 1,117 whales were "required to fill the Ross's 120,000 barrels...
...command of the Ross was Captain Oscar Nilsen, who began his whaling under the man who saved the industry from extinction. Modern whaling dates back to Christmas Eve, 1904, when Captain Carl Anton Larsen of Sandefjord, Norway, brought the first whale oil of the season into Grytviken, a bleak whaling station on the Island of South Georgia east of Cape Horn. Captain Larsen, already an oldster in the trade, realized that whaling was doomed unless new grounds were discovered. The Arctic, hunted for centuries, was nearing exhaustion. With great difficulty he raised enough capital for an expedition to the Weddell...
Soon after the War the vast waters lying between the South Polar ice barrier, Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope threatened to go the way of the Arctic whaling grounds. Again Captain Larsen set out to find more whales. This time he went through the ice pack into the Ross Sea* where no explorer had been for a decade. Thence he pounded his way into the Bay of Whales where six years later Richard Evelyn Byrd established a base at Little America. Once again Captain Larsen made whaling history, by arriving on a Christmas Eve. Four days later...
...corners of the sea, assembled upon the shore. All was soon ready. The judges took their places. The multitudes were hushed. The momentous struggle was about to have its issue. Suddenly, bellowing profanities rolled in from the sea, and in another moment there clambered upon the shore, Leviathan, the whale. Taking position in the cleared area between the two Classes, and squirting jets of water in all directions by way of punctuation, he addressed himself as folows...
...Prof. Tarbottom's third Ph.D. thesis on "Brow-ridge Variation in the Eskimo, with Concomitant Hypertrophy of the Frontal Sinuses." For all that, the photography is superb, the selection of scenes is accurate, and a coherent picture, a beautiful picture, is presented. A particularly good bit is a whale chase, in which a whalebone whale is successfully harpooned and killed; another perfect shot is the simple, graytoned, opening scene. But many more like these might be mentioned. Never is the hunting, wild-nature aspect so overemphasis as to emerge into the usual naturefaker travelogue; always it fits quietly and briefly...