Word: codfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Largest employer of labor in Gloucester. Mass, is Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co., Ltd. Its plants, stretching along Gloucester's busy waterfront, turn out such fishy products as ready-to-fry codfish cakes, ready-to-use codfish, clam chowder, haddock chowder, flaked fish, haddock fillet, cod liver oil, fish meal...
...faces lower selling prices. Tinker mackerel, haddock, cod and other piscine products sell at about half what they did two years ago. But like other food companies Gorton-Pew's faith is buttressed by the knowledge that people must eat. And in many a U. S. home the codfish ball is still a Friday night and Sunday morning institution. The better to send forth cod to hungry consumers, last week Gorton-Pew opened a new plant which can turn out 48,000 10-oz. cans of ready-to-fry codfish cakes a day. Machinery does everything from slicing...
...describing the miseries which he encountered in a neighborhood about 700 mi. west of Rio de Janeiro and 700 mi. north of Buenos Aires: "We spent days and nights hunting and when we shot nothing we were hungry in a forest of game. Braised alligator tail tastes like flaked codfish. Here spider webs enmesh birds. Ants drive us from our hammocks into a circle of ashes. The hordes of insects for which the region does not provide a living cause us night after night of sleeplessness. One especially virulent species has poisoned us all. Potent does not describe this land...
...American lobster (Homarus americanus) is at its best off the coast of Maine, grows larger than its cousins down South. This advantage, upon which Maine's lobster industry was built, last week threatened to ruin it. Lobstermen setting their traps for the new season with halibut, herring and codfish heads anxiously questioned one another for news from Washington, where Maine's Congressmen Wallace Humphrey White Jr. and John Edward Nelson were pressing for passage of a bill to save the ailing business...
...codfish aristocrats give way?