Word: cod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture-postcard look: the walled city of Quebec, brooding on its cliff above the St. Lawrence; the Maxfield Parrish mountains of the Gaspe; storybook hamlets, and fishing fleets lying like a school of minnows in the bay. There were oxcarts and outdoor ovens, pea soup and acres of cod drying in the sun. And there was Montreal, second biggest French city in the world, with the biggest black market in Canada...
...Gaspe the fishing boats still put out from the coves for cod and halibut. Tourists could also put out from the little bays for a day of deep-sea fishing for swordfish and tuna. Perce Rock still stood, angular and orange, out of the blue water. The thousands of birds still nested on Bonaventure Island...
...hospital employes. Last week, the Association's National Committee decided the time had come for national expansion; requests for information were coming in from potential chapters in other U.S. cities. This summer 61-year-old Chaplain Nesbitt plans to start things moving in Washington, D.C., Wilmington and Cape Cod while on "vacation" from his trim, tree-shaded St. Luke's Church in The Bronx. Alive to the perils of bigotry, Irish-Methodist Nesbitt unfailingly invites Catholics to St. George organization meetings, works in close collaboration with the Catholic police chaplain. Nevertheless, he earnestly says...
...nonscheduled operators to register with the Board. And it defined nonscheduled operations so as to exclude any company which led the public to believe that it was operating regularly between any two points. Example: Trans-Marine Airlines, Inc. had been running regular flights from New York to Cape Cod (TIME, July 16). CAB ordered Trans-Marine to discontinue the operation, warned other lines not to engage in similar practices...
...this is good old Boston The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God. -John Collins Bossidy...