Word: fish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same token that there are many good fish in the sea, many a good U. S. fishing ground was necessarily omitted from TIME...
...nowadays she has her own private cabinet which governs the thinking of her column. Her chief adviser on economic problems is Alexander Sachs, an economist who works for Lehman Corp. and used to be head of NRA's economic research division. On foreign affairs she consults Hamilton Fish Armstrong, John Gunther, Quincy Howe. If she wants to know what the British are doing she calls Harold Nicolson in London. About France she talks to Raoul de' Roussy de Sales, U. S. correspondent for Paris-Soir. On Central Europe she calls any of her hundreds of refugee friends...
...great, sunbursty slick-paper prospectus issued last week, the Midnight Sun Broadcasting Co. gave advertisers some idea of the possibilities of the Alaska market. Alaska's bill last year for U. S. merchandise was $42,676,441. Fish cannery equipment and mining machinery were the biggest items. The petroleum bill was $3,505,819; tobacco, $1,061,621. The cosmetics purchases were not worth listing...
...story, as told by a simple Japanese infantryman in letters to his family, has a naive charm until readers recall that "Ashihei Hino" is really Katsunori Tamai, known to a highbrow handful of Japanese readers for his The Warship on the Mountain, The Fish with Poison, for which in the past two years he has won Japan's highest Akutagawa Prize for literature. Translater is pacifist Birth-Controller Baroness Shidzué Ishimoto, who translated the book out of "deep devotion to my country...
...brothers in that fish bowl...