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Thus the U.S. paid a debt of gratitude dating from Dec. 7. For Hawila captured and disarmed a Jap pilot who landed on the island. And when the Jap later escaped and ran amuck trying to kill the islanders, Hawila sailed in a whale boat to get help, while old Kanahele battled the berserk enemy...
Thus the U.S. still has a whale of a job to do in South American aviation. For want of a little more tact and a few more planes the whole Good Neighbor policy is being chipped and scarred. Whatever the State Department finally decides to do, U.S. aviation insiders have a fast, simple solution: give South American airlines 15 to 25 huge transports right away. With this equipment U.S. lines would have a better chance to keep down Axis competition and give South Americans the finest airline service ever...
...Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now"; it has Robert Perry hopping around like an 1890 model of Danny Kaye; and it has a weird conglomeration of characters and specialty acts. These vary widely in appeal, but they have one thing in common: everybody behind the footlights has a whale of a good time out of them. The audience isn't quite so lucky...
Sailing Under Water. When oil was commercially developed in Pennsylvania late in the igth Century, there wasn't much left of the whale-oil market. But there were still fish. Most Provincetown fishermen began to fish off the dangerous ledges of George's Banks, "a terrifying piece of water, so treacherous that for many years no one fished there. . . . Let a blow come up and a vessel drag its anchor and come into collision with an other and there is no record of the crew of either one surviving...
...White & Blue. But June 22, 1941, date of the German attack on Russia, changed all that. As he once led longshoremen against the shippers, tough Harry Bridges now marshaled his army against the Axis. He did a whale...