Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Spanish battle fleet of Admiral Cervera, long sought, imminently expected by nervous mamas at U. S. bathing beaches, had been found. The Spanish gunboats coaled and departed to face U. S. Admiral Schley. U. S. citizens looked for Curaçao in their atlases, found it off the coast of Venezuela, a tiny button in the bottom of the Caribbean...
...scene is the Manhattan laboratory of Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co. The characters are Lawrence V. Burton, Associate Editor of McGraw-Hill's Food Industries, and Harden F. Taylor, Atlantic Coast Fishery's Vice President...
...most of his waking moments. Once, when showing a friend through a fish plant, he picked up a handful of fish meal (a hash-like, dry composite of ground up heads, tails and other fishy by-products), remarked: "Isn't it beautiful?" And when, last week, Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co. announced an offering of new stock, the Taylor Process of fish freezing was prominent among its assets...
...haddock, one month's catch showing 75% haddock, 16% cod, 5% flounders. The oldtime fishing dory is also outmoded in large scale fishing. Large beam trawlers drag the sea floor with nets, haul up masses of fish in which the smaller fish are often squashed and suffocated. Atlantic Coast Fisheries trawlers have a capacity of 200,000 pounds of fish per trip. They keep in touch with home ports by wireless; bring in as much fish as is needed to keep the factory busy. Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co., organized in 1922, last year showed net sales...
...railroad with freight. Then the road was pushed on to Guatemala City. In 1912 the railroad company changed its name from Guatemala Railway Co. to its present title of International Railways of Central America, acquired a road running from Guatemala City to the Pacific, thus gave Guatemala, a coast-to-coast railway...