Word: coves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pork in Perkins Cove...
...story of the $33,000 is more dramatic than Senator Douglas, for it portrays the old Yankee doggedness that built New England. For ten generations the fishermen of Ogunquit and Perkins Cove (as the Josias River vicinity is known) had no harbor, and were forced to drag their boats over the rocks to safety during storms. Need for a sheltered basin grew as the fishing industry expanded...
Died. Russell Doubleday, 77, author (A Gunner Aboard the Yankee, 1898; Tree Neighbors, 1940), editor (World's Work) and publisher (vice president, Doubleday & Co.); after brief illness; in Glen Cove...
...Harvard camp explained that an observation boat anchored near the finish line at Bartlett's Cove is for invited guests only. It was chartered by a group of Harvard students...
...spring, 34-year-old Bob Campbell set out to rediscover the old strike. He formed a syndicate, raised $4,000, bought a boat and some Geiger counters. With two other prospectors he started probing his way along the rocky lake shore. In a whole summer of crawling into every cove and climbing 1,000-ft. cliffs, the trio covered only 60 miles. One night a storm wrecked their boat. The others gave up but Campbell stayed, got another boat and went on alone. Ten miles farther on, at a place called Alona Bay, his Geiger counter buzzed wildly...