Word: bloater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relax their efforts. Less than a third of the $3,250,000 excise tax, for example, has been passed along by Congress to the State Governments, which have the spending of it.† Other pressing problems: some of the most desirable species of fish (sturgeon, Lake Erie cisco, bloater, black & blue fins) are now extinct in the Great Lakes, and the famed Lake Superior whitefish are fast disappearing; municipalities often have to be forced to stop pollution of streams; the increasing number of hunters (448,000 in 1935, 1,000,000 in 1938) may require tighter limitations on duck hunting...
Hard by stood one Jack Carter, horny-handed skipper of the drifter. "Tell me now," said Royal Edward, grave with interest, "when is a bloater a kipper...
...Well, Sir, it's like this. When we catches one he's good fresh herring. When they salts him and hangs him up to dry he's a bloater. When they splits him down his middle and dries him some more, why then, Sir, he's a kipper...
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