Word: cod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Massachusetts' stolid, solid Senator Leverett Saltonstall smelled something fishy last week, and it was not Boston cod...
...elbow of Cape Cod, between Cuttyhunk Island and Martha's Vineyard, the elusive striped bass gallivant in frothy water. Their favorite spots are tide-ripped ledges which are practically inaccessible both to fishing boats and surf casters. For years, old salts have looked for an easier way to catch them. The citizens of Cuttyhunk finally got the answer...
Boston traditionally lives on beans and codfish. But the wails that Massachusetts Congressman John McCormack heard were not for the bean and the cod. Boston voters wanted red meat...
Sometimes a polar air mass protects the eastern states in a more dramatic way. Last week a West Indian hurricane roared northward toward New England. Storm warnings flew; fishing boats scurried to cover. Two hundred Navy airplanes fled to Albany from Quonset Point, R.I. Police on Cape Cod were alerted for onrushing trouble. But a rescuing polar air mass hovered over the threatened area, pushed the dreaded hurricane harmlessly away from the land...
...bought their gear wholesale, sold their fish cooperatively, ended the year with $3,276 surplus or $109 apiece. By last year the co-op had 90 members and earned $39,984 surplus, better than $400 a man. A draft, now figured at 224 lbs., fetched $12. Wartime prices for cod had helped, but the big saving had been in fishing costs. In World War I, when prices generally were even higher, a draft fetched only...