Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a theory was hatched to explain the albacore's strange migration. Theory or no theory, California fishermen were deserted by the white-meat albacore, left .with the less tasty, dark-meat yellowfin tuna...
Californians fought to keep control of the pack. Last year fishermen enjoyed a North-South price war, which hoisted prices from $90 to as high as $150 a ton for their catch. Oregon finally topped California by a standing offer of $2.50 more than any price California wanted to name. (Apparently chastened, neither side has moved to start a new war this season.) California packers next carried the fight to Washington, asked the Federal Trade Commission for permission to label their tuna extra fancy. Thompson and his friends, new hosts to the albacore, claimed that only their tuna merited such...
...Poor for actors & showmen, bookkeepers & cashiers, coal miners, editors & reporters, farm laborers, firemen, fishermen, lawyers & judges, longshoremen, musicians, policemen, railroad workers, stockbrokers, teamsters, telephone operators, commercial pilots, building tradesmen, fruit farmers, office clerks, stenographers, railroad porters, streetcar conductors...
Last week Spanish fishermen quit working off the Irish coast because they saw too many U-boats to suit them. One torpedoed the 13,950-ton British merchant-cruiser Andania...
...Winkelman carefully specified that the war was not over in Zeeland and Queen Wilhelmina named Admiral van der Stad to command all her forces there. The Dutch Navy-was still in the war, being mostly stationed in The Netherlands In dies. The non-surrender of Zeeland, land of shrimp-fishermen and antique churches, was important to Great B/itain since its deep channels are the only ones on the shallow, white-sand Dutch coast suitable for submarine bases. But by week's end this resistance, momentarily bolstered by Prince Bernhard's return, petered out as the Allies withdrew from...