Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This eager import of modernities (even a grandfather's clock that Liberia ordered had to be modern) was an expression of the country's deep desire to catch up with other nations...
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...
...fish in this sea, Deep Sea Trawlers, Inc. was formed by Lowell Wakefield, 37, son of an Alaskan salmon packer. President Wakefield, bespectacled and professorial-looking even in dungarees, designed and patented the Deep Sea's freezing equipment to process the crabs afloat, had the Deep Sea built to his specifications. He thought the first trip mighty encouraging...
...Deep Sea's first catch was worth some $110,000. Deep Sea Trawlers hopes to set up a regular schedule of one round trip every eight weeks, eventually sell its crabs all over...
Writers at Work. ERNEST HEMINGWAY is in Cuba, working on a novel which he has already spent five years on. He is reluctant to talk about it. In Ohio, Pulitzer Prizewinner ROBERT PENN WARREN (All the King's Men) was deep in a long ballad about the frontier, and also writing a novel "about a man who undertook a deed of light, but who, because he undertook it without understanding its context, performed in the end a deed of darkness." Another Pulitzer Prizewinner, JOHN P. MARQUAND, didn't believe that "a writer's apt to evolve very...