Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight years ago Grande Rivière's fishermen were deep in debt. Their cod brought only $1.80 a draft (238 lbs.). Just to pay for nets, lines, hooks and other gear, a skipper and crew (three men) had to catch 400 drafts a season. The average catch was 500, which meant about $180 profit a year to be split among the four...
...touch of Westminster Abbey inside. They pointed out that some of its supports and buttresses, borrowed from European cathedrals, where they were essential parts of the structure, were pasted on to St. Pat's merely for looks. Repairs had exposed brick underpinnings; proved its marble beauty skin-deep...
...dazzling season in 1944, Freshman McWilliams, a swivel-hipped halfback, looked like the best up-&-coming player in Southeastern Conference history. No one was surprised when Shorty showed up on West Point's unbeatable 1945 team. There were plenty more like him; they turned up three deep at both West Point and Annapolis...
When the National War Labor Board granted Western Union Telegraph Co. employes a 21% wage raise last year, the company went deep into the red. That made no difference to WLB. So Western Union appealed to the Federal Communications Commission, which granted a 10% overall boost in rates for one year to help Western Union...
Last week Lafayette's miners did something that met with their longtime doctor's deep disapproval. They trooped into Bermont's hardware & grocery, and Alderson's clothing store and dropped dollar bills and 50? pieces into a box to give him a trip around the world and to sign a citation: "To a grand old man, with the best wishes of a grateful community...