Word: codding
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...Stolen Massachusetts' sacred cod...
...know anything about that. You better talk to Bob about that." "I'm asking about an organization run by Walter Taylor," I continued. "It supported Kennedy. Do you know whether or not it still exists?" "Well," he said, "I think it's become a club down on Cape Cod. Why don't you talk to Bob about it." "Who is Bob?" I asked. He laughed: "Why he's Jack's brother, the campaign manager. He's down the street at 45 Batterymarch...
Harry Flynn, assistant director of "Seeing Red," the 1951 show, is the chairman of the 1953 production. Flynn is a veteran of several years experience in Cape Cod summer stock. Fitzhugh L Brown '54 of Eliot House will be assistant director...
World War II temporarily ended Newfoundland's financial troubles. The cod market revived. In 1940, when the Battle of the Atlantic was heating up, Britain gave the U.S. an outright gift of 99-year leases for defense bases on Newfoundland. The big Gander airport was enlarged, and U.S. money began pouring into other defense installations; that gave work to thousands of Newfoundlanders. After the war, Newfoundland had a $29 million cash surplus, and Britain gave the Newfoundlanders three choices: to continue with commission government (which few Newfies wanted), to return to dominion status, or to join Canada...
...earn an easier, better living inshore. With fewer hands to man it, the fishing industry itself is being forced to modernize. The trend is to big diesel craft instead of the old dory trawlers, and to fresh-frozen fish packing instead of the wearying process of salting cod by hand...