Word: crab
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...land inhabited by glittering artistic folk and their swimming pools, ol debbil Bucks County squirms evilly under the pen of master funnyman S. J. Perelman. In this newest offering, Mr. Perelman has created a sometimes hilarious expose of a plague spot overgrown with Japanese beetles and a gigantic land crab often called "the rustic...
...careful study: "Anyway, you can tell he's English." The man who painted the sorry sight had also contributed a lithographic Self Portrait (which won $50). It was better-dressed but no better-fleshed than Dorian. "That fellow," confided one bemused farmer, "looks just like a dried up crab apple under my tree back home." Said another: "The funniest thing I ever...
Into Bellingham, Wash, from its maiden voyage last week chugged a sturdy 140-ft. trawler with a new kind of catch. In the Deep Sea's hold, frozen and packaged, were 150,000 pounds of king crab, the first to be caught commercially by any U.S. fishermen. As a result of the Deep Sea's venture, the U.S. fishing industry may be able to take over a onetime Japanese monopoly...
...king crab, which often measures up to five feet between claw tips and weighs about 15 pounds, is tenderer than lobster, less oily than crab. The crabs are caught chiefly in trawl nets dragged over flat bottom areas of the North Pacific...
...King crabs were first canned and sold commercially by the Japanese, who managed to stifle all competition by using "floating canneries" and cheap labor, and disregarding other nations' territorial fishing rights. From 1931 until 1940, the Japanese sold $27 million worth of king crab in the U.S. alone...