Word: fishermen
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...fire which burnt to ashes more than 400 houses, a hospital, a school, many business offices, deprived 1,500 of their homes. Korea, Japan's mainland dependency, was lashed by a storm which toppled 62 houses in the Keishonando district, lost eleven fishing boats near Fusan, bearing 70 fishermen. At Shingishu, Korea, 200 houses were washed away by floods. At Nagano, 20 persons were blown to bits by a fireworks explosion. Many mountain villages were wiped out by forest-fires between Kobe and Shimonoseki on the Empire's main island. A cyclone howled through the town of Fukui...
Storms are frequent on the Lakes and there have been at least two disastrous hurricanes, in 1869 and 1913. Winked at by sailors on the snub-nosed freighters but still believed by old Chippewas, farmers and fishermen around the Straits of Mackinac is the Great Lakes' most eerie legend-the Indian Drum. Distinctly reverberant on nights of storm, the Drum of the Manitou has been heard to give one roll for every ship sunk on the Lakes, one beat for every life lost. Around one night on which the Drum counted wrong, Authors William Machharg & Edwin Balmer wrote...
...staff are two plant pathologists, six entomologists, four chemists, some 20 assistants. With an initial investment of $100,000, the laboratory's operating cost is expected to be $125,000 a year. Object is to find new and better insecticides which Du Pont can sell to farmers, nurserymen, fishermen, manufacturers, housewives...
HERO BREED - Pat Mullen - McBride ($2.50). Author Mullen (Man of Aran) keeps his heroine out of the way to the end so as to give plenty of room for his hard-hitting, quick-tempered Irish fishermen and smugglers...
...easy place for small boats to reach with their limited gear. Fortunately the shrimps come into shallower water near the shore during the winter, where they can more conveniently be taken. Thus they will probably supply is winter fishery, and a very welcome one to Maine small-boat fishermen, who need something to bolster up their badly depleted lobster industry