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...dirigible was about a dozen miles off Point Sur when something went suddenly, inexplicably wrong in her stern. A jar-a lurch-and the operator of the elevators in the control car felt the wheel jerked out of his hands. Wallowing like a wounded whale, the Macon rolled over on her side, stuck her nose into the air, started to climb. The lookout atop the great bag telephoned the control car that a rib had snapped in the framework, that No.1 gas cell near the fin had ripped open. Steady as a stone, Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from...
More than a quarter-century ago a fine big female specimen of the Atlantic right whale (Balaena glacialis) disported herself in the grey winter water near the tip of Long Island. Fifty-four feet long, she was accompanied by her 38-ft. infant, which she paused now & then to suckle. The mother's great head was nearly all mouth, and the vast cavern between her jaws was curtained with hundreds of flat, flexible blades of whalebone. When she was hungry she sounded, swam with mouth agape through shoals of plankton (tiny sea organisms) until the whalebone sieve had collected...
...seven strands of airplane cable. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews had to mount a ladder to point out the close-packed whalebone strainer (see cut). Now famed for spectacular expeditions in the Gobi and elsewhere, bald Dr. Andrews recalled that his 1907 expedition to Long Island to reclaim the whale's bones was his first & worst...
After the mother whale was caught the baby swam unhappily along the shore until it, too, was killed. Its bones were recovered without difficulty, later traded to the British Museum for the skeleton of a dodo...
...poverty-stricken residents of Bolinas Beach, Calif. (TIME, March 19). Their treasure proved valueless. So do most of the substances-usually soap, wax, paint, tallow, mud, wood, coke, clinkers, decayed fish-with which wild-eyed people rush to chemical laboratories to learn whether they have found the sperm whale secretion which is used as a base for expensive perfumes. No such delusion had small, apple-cheeked Roderick Palmer Crandall when he found a chunk of waxy, yellowish stuff near his grandfather's home at Islesboro. To him it was just something which bobbed up with a satisfying swoosh when...