Word: whaler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busy removing the last vestiges of the confused masses of brick, a city of small galvanized iron shops and houses looking for all the world like a crude mining town in Alaska or a boom town of the prairies, and no longer the oriental city of Kipling and the whaler...
...November 8, 1914, the Emden was caught off Cocos Islands by the Australian cruiser Sydney and set afire. Captain Miiller was captured, but his crew escaped ashore, hid in the jungle for weeks, found an old whaler, the Ayesha, refitted her, sailed 12,000 miles home around the Cape, dodging British destroyers through the Channel in a providential...
...share was about 3%. Using Norwegian killer ships, the Ulysses caught over 1,400 whales, boiled them down, sold the oil to U. S. soap manufacturers at an average price of about 5? a pound. Ready to send his refinery back to the Antarctic next December, Whaler Isbrandtsen struck a snag...
...pound on whale oil produced with the aid of foreign killer ships. This does not benefit U. S. harpooners because there are none but it suits U. S. farm and fish lobbies, because whale oil competes in a small way with domestic oils and fats in soap making. The whalers sponsored an amendment postponing the excise for five years. Last week Congress adjourned without acting on it. To Whaler Isbrandtsen that meant: 1) buying a fleet of killer ships (estimated cost of eight if U. S. built: $3,200,000); or 2) taking a chance that Congress would pass...
...author lived from 1819 to 1891, and is noted for his adventurous novels of the sea and South Sea Island life. His novels were based on the experiences of his youth which included capture by cannibals and subsequent rescue, and also service on a whaler...