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Tucked away in timbered, fish-oil-soaked sheds on Seattle's waterfront is a super hush-hush business : salmon egg canning. Though even Seattleites know little about it, this small-fry business is of strategic importance to fishermen everywhere...
Last year he and Neptune Products did the bulk of the canning business, upped 30% by big orders from soldiers & sailors taking up fishing all over the world. In all, the six canners sold 5,000,000 jars, grossed $350,000. This year, they expected to jump production still higher, and have already salted away $50,000 worth of salmon eggs for canning. But unless WPB relents, the industry will have to shut up shop March 1. By the end of summer, the supply of canned eggs on hand will be exhausted. Trout fishers who have used salmon eggs from...
...stock of Western Grocer Co. of Marshalltown, Iowa, one of the biggest wholesale grocers between the Mississippi and the Rockies. By this stroke, he mushroomed his interests over three-quarters of the U.S., acquiring ten canneries and one packaging plant, along with Western's subsidiary, Marshall Canning...
...foot and tail caught in a hay mower, Frank Berigan jumped over a fence to help him, cut himself on one knee, hit himself in the eye with the other; sister Pat ran out of the house, slipped, sprained her wrist; Mrs. Berigan, startled as she was canning, sprained her finger; and Champ, another Berigan dog, jumped over the barn door and broke his foot...
...Bootlegging is back. North Carolina liquor-law violations during the past three months were above the entire preceding year. Arkansas "revenooers" are warring on farmers who bought sugar for canning, have turned to making moonshine since drought-burned crops failed...