Word: codding
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...that few industrialists know that it exists or what it means. Patents belong to English and Dutch concerns (Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd.. Batavian Petroleum Co.). In the U. S., Eastman Kodak Co. is using the method to refine organic mixtures like cod liver oil, which decompose before they boil...
...stoutest attackers of the bill admit that the conditions in a few states need federal correction, and the issue is the passage of a law strong and explicit enough to put the United States on a par with other countries. The comic episodes in the shadow of the sacred cod mask a tragedy of high minded people fighting themselves instead of the enemy...
...State Armory at Peoria, Ill. for the 18th National Pigeon Show, most important of the half dozen major pigeon fiestas held in the U. S. each year. First event of the show was nose drops. Because pigeons are susceptible to influenza, their owners dose them before big shows with cod-liver oil for prevention, Epsom salts if they develop sniffles. Before going to Peoria most of the entrants had been given warm baths, rinsed, flown in the sun to dry. For weeks their owners had trained them to handle tamely. When the judging started last week, the pigeons were taken...
Some forty years ago, when he was searching with fine-meshed, nets in one of the Norwegian fjords for young cod, he brought up from the muddy bottom of deep water, where fishermen had not previously reached with their gear, quantities of shrimps...
Although it has long been known that the same species of shrimp found in Norway is to be found also along the coast of North America from Cape Cod to Nova Scotia, fishermen have not generally known of its abundance, or, knowing it, have not attempted to develop a market. Consequently when Dr. Hjort came here last year as a guest of Harvard, and also of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (of which Professor H. B. Bigelow is director), he set about at once to learn whether the shrimps are as abundant here as they are in Europe...