Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nominee Cross's first act to prove his political mastery was to have Patrick Brett O'Sullivan, onetime Congressman, named chairman of the State Committee and Joseph H. Tone, secretary. Promising the Republicans "a whale of a fight," he hurried back to his Yale Review office at New Haven, prepared for an old-fashioned "cracker barrel" campaign...
Meanwhile whales figured in news despatches from both coasts. In Shelton, Wash., lumberport, a large black whale appeared one 2 a. m. Mill hands hooked a hawser around its jaw, towed it to deep water. Thereupon it rushed to another part of the bay, was eventually harpooned. In Dover, N. H., a whale became marooned on a mud-flat, was shot by local police. Editorially, the New York World denounced this act, pointed out that while a live whale is no asset to a community, a dead one is a distinct liability...
...whale boats interested Los Angeles last week, but tuna-fishing boats worth $250,000 were prepared for trial runs, and contracts calling for another $250,000 worth were signed. Plans were likewise drawn up for a super-tuna boat, to cost approximately $200,000. It will contain freezing compartments capable of holding 600 tons of frozen tuna; the boat will be able to cruise tropical waters for two months at a stretch...
...will be 40 in October. She was born and reared on a farm near Winnipeg, Canada. Of her early cultural advantages, she says that her mother "dedicated her to God as Hannah did Samuel; instead of Cinderella and Mother Goose, I went to sleep with Jonah and the Whale and Daniel in the Lion...
John Wanamaker of Manhattan and Capt. Charlie Thompson, famed old-time fishing guide, were towed 40 mi. to sea off Montauk Point, L. I. by a three-ton whale which absorbed two harpoons and 40 bullets before dying...