Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scheme exterminated the island's flies in less than a year (TIME. Feb. 7, 1955). Last spring the USDA and the Florida Livestock Board set up a million-dollar screwworm factory at Sebring, Fla. The fierce, legless maggots are fed on 80,000 Ibs. a week of mixed whale and horse meat flavored with 4,500 gals, of beef blood. When they get their growth and turn into pupae, they are harvested, packed into aluminum canisters, and exposed for 6-2 minutes to gamma rays from radioactive cobalt...
...still face," says Rival Executive Vice President Joseph Getlin, "is getting across to the housewife-not the dog-the advantages of a nutritious single food." Some vets also disagree with the unvarying ration theory, and at least one company (Laddie Boy) is coming out with such varying dishes as whale meat, hash and eggs. But most big canners still insist that the one-dish menu is right; all have big experimental kennels where they constantly check their formulas on kennels of fine dogs. Says Pard Division Head Clarence M. Olson: "If humans could eat one balanced food such...
...serpent. It is 100 ft. long, 5 ft. in diameter, and made of 200 Ibs. of strong nylon fabric and about a ton of synthetic rubber. Partially filled to keep the skin relaxed, it carries 10,000 gallons of fluid and slips through the water like a boneless whale with a flattish top 18 in. above the surface...
Barbed-Wire Landing. In our landing craft we felt big as a whale. Several times tracers sought us out but did not find us. The battlewise Chinese coxswain kept his head, stayed out of the line of fire, refused to allow his gunners to fire their two machine guns and give our position away. We were not touched, nor were the two other landing craft. For once the battle broke, it became a fire fight between the attacking Communists and our escorts. The Nationalists later claimed all but one of the attacking PTs and gunboats sunk...
...record for the largest tuna ever caught in Spanish waters, sportive Generalissimo Francisco Franco took to sea off the Galician coast near La Coruna in his harpoon-equipped yacht Azor, landed the ultimate prize in marine angling. The Jefe's catch: a 23-ton, 46-ft. sperm whale...