Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard had a definite financial interest in the Charles for sometime. Before anyone had conceived the idea of building a permanent bridge across the river, the College prospered on a ferry boat business. It was the ever enterprising John Hancock who in 1786 spanned the Charles despite objections from the Harvard Corporation that such facile communication would disturb the College's scholars and be conducive to corrupting their morals. Hancock silenced the President and Fellows with a grant of two hundred pounds per annum for the toll bridge concession. But Hancock's profitable monopoly suffered thereupon from a bridge-building...
Oldtimer Charles Hansen, a prospector since 1923, had seen nothing like it since the original Red Lake Rush. The only trouble was that most of the claim-stakers were from the East or B.C., he said. "Manitobans seem to be missing the boat...
...boat-owners, who get 40% of a boat's catch (the crew gets 60%), and fish companies think that prices in the open market must drop to their natural levels. They are only too well aware that New England's fishing industry is in no condition to keep prices up arbitrarily. Cold storage plants are as packed with fish as sardine cans. There were 15 million pounds of frozen rosefish in New England freezers at the beginning of the year, compared to four million pounds at the same time last year...
...this week opened, the Lenten season demand for fresh fish forced the price of haddock above the union's minimum, brought about a temporary truce between the fishermen and boat-owners. But much of last week's unsold catch was condemned by the state health inspector, sold for fish meal and fertilizer. Price...
...upon what happened when Montgomery suddenly turned on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery needed tanks before he could turn. Stripping its own armored divisions, the U.S. had sent him 400 General Shermans, with all the engines stowed aboard one ship. That one ship was singled out by a U-boat and sunk soon after clearing port. Another ship was frantically loaded with engines, and sent off-unescorted-to catch up with the rest. Miraculously, it got through...