Word: cod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whittemore will carry the modernization north to New England. One of the issues in the fight for control of the New Haven was Palmer's intention to abandon the money-losing (over $3,000,000 last year) Old Colony branch road from Boston to Cape Cod. Whittemore hopes not only to retain the Old Colony line, but to make it pay by bringing its equipment up to the road's new standards...
...entertain people, give them something," Fred Allen cracked, in his disillusioned way. Vacationing on Cape Cod this week, Fred might well recall that crack: a giveaway program had belted Allen all the way down to No. 38 on the Hooperating, moved all the way up into the No. 2 spot itself...
...thought they would. But in the entertainment and resort businesses, which are usually the first to feel price resistance, there were contrary signs. In Chicago last week, row upon row of empty seats forced Balaban & Katz to slash some prices almost 50% in its six Loop moviehouses. The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce complained that many visitors were so intent on cutting expenses that they slept in their cars overnight...
Annie, now 45, got her start as a girl of 18 when she shared a boat with her father for a year. From then on, she fished alone. She can handle her own gear: 32 lines for cod, 100 lobster pots (most of which she made herself), eight nets for herring, mackerel and other ground fish, two rowboats and a 23-foot motorboat. She first qualified for the Dominion government fishing bounty* 17 years ago, has just got her latest $8.75 check for the 5,000 pounds of fish she caught...
...Impulse. Hopper did not hit his stride until middle age, when sudden fame as an interpreter of the American scene-a sort of Theodore Dreiser in art-freed him. Nowadays, Hopper and his wife, who keeps her own painting studiously in the background, can afford a house on Cape Cod as well as their Manhattan studio apartment overlooking Washington Square...