Word: whaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dynes interviewed 57 victims of delirium tremens in Psychopathic Hospital, asked each patient to describe the various Animals he saw leaping around on the walls, ceiling, bed. Only four drunkards saw elephants, only one of the elephants was pink. One patient howled that he was being devoured by a whale, another begged Dr. Dynes to save him from a raging hippopotamus. Other denizens of the D. T. jungle were dogs, insects, snakes, birds, cats, lions, tigers and rats. Nine patients, said Dr. Dynes, could not identify their visions, so he reported them as "animals not specified." Others saw no animals...
Told by an elderly Danish humorist, this modernized version of the Jonah story proceeds in like vein. Its humor comes from breezy folktale slang, matter-of-factness in the miracle scenes, with Jonah fumbling around in the whale's belly like a man looking for a light switch...
...Norwegian whalers, Norsk Telefunken Radioaktieselskap last week turned up a neat new wrinkle: a battery-powered radio transmitter sealed in a steel drum attached to a lance which is hooked to the floating carcass after a whale has been killed by harpooners in small boats. It will broadcast on the 600-to-800-metre band an automatically recurring signal so that a mother ship with a direction-finding receiver can track down and recover the catch. Since few household radio receivers tune much higher than 560 metres, the chances of an ordinary radio listener tuning in a dead whale will...
Lieutenant Midtlyng had known little about whaling when he boarded the Frango, but reported that he soon had reason to believe that the crew were violating the law. He said they brought in humpback whales shorter than 35 feet and whales which were nursing their young. Although the crew had insisted at the outset that they were experts at telling the length of a whale in the water, they now argued: "It's difficult to tell how long they are." Then they told him that they found the whales "dead and floating." When Midtlyng pointed out that the dead...
When the Frango put in at its pier off Staten Island, N. Y., Lieutenant Midtylng hopped ashore, made his report. Twenty-four hours later U. S. officials seized the ship's $500,000 cargo, sealed it, filed a libel action against 423 tons of her whale...