Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a fraction of the total U. S. crab catch is canned; most of it is sold iced or half-cooked, is so perishable that it can not be shipped very far inland. Until the Fellers discovery, the only domestic crab-meat inland regions could get, was from dungeness (West Coast) crabs, which last year were 95% of the U. S. canned pack of 648,000 pounds. Significant, therefore, is the Blue Channel Corp.'s process, because it offers a new source to satisfy the U. S. appetite for crabmeat, which far exceeds the domestic supply...
...Beard makes it clear that modern boyhoods are no match for his, but he is far from thinking that modern youngsters are going to the dogs. The wiry 89-year-old declares his favorite remark applies as well to the present generation as to any of its predecessors: "I'd rather be an American boy," says old Dan Beard, "than President of the United States, or anything else in the world...
Though he has neither Lardner's indescribable humor nor Hemingway's Paris-found sense of style, John O'Hara ranks with them as a first-class, far from phoney reporter. Appointment in Samarra, his first and best novel, was good enough and true enough to make anything he wrote thereafter worth reading. Probably most worth reading are his acid short stories...
...Hara's moral scheme is dependable as far as it goes. But his writing is limited by the excellence of his dislikes. His ear for heeltalk is so mercilessly accurate that some of the stories depend on that alone (e.g., "But one night Bernette happened to get a load of Peggy doing a rumba with Jackie, and from then on. See what I mean? Isn't she marvelous? She's really primitive."). The company so neatly evoked, is a company whose average intelligence rises only slightly above the threshold of human consciousness...
...iron cot in a concentration camp not far away lies the once-famous, still beautiful actress Emmy Ritter, convalescent and condemned to death. There is little chance that any friend knows she is there. After her trial she managed to scribble a note for Mark, her son, and give it to Fritz, the surly old servant of the Ritters who had been brought to testify. But Mark is in New York, and Fritz may not have dared or cared to mail it to him. Emmy no longer has influential friends; she has lived for 23 years in America. There...