Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fishing industry, once the most prosperous branch of U.S. commercial fishing. In recent years the pier has also become a symbol of the industry's steady decline. Since World War II, Boston's trawler fleet has dropped from 140 to 79, its once huge force of fishermen to 2,000, its share of the vital groundfish market (e.g., flounder, haddock, cod), which was once 90%, to 45%. Yet last week the Boston fish pier was sprucing up as if it had not a worry in the world. Fresh coats of paint covered the weather-beaten buildings, ramshackle structures...
...fish business, which sold its catch in a wildly fluctuating seasonal market. The brothers decided that the way to stabilize was to process and market their fish themselves. They started in 1946 with a 1-lb. frozen package, persuaded A. & P., Safeway and other chains to retail their "4 Fishermen" products, despite their tongue-twisting and somewhat exaggerated slogan, "Frozen Fish Are Fresher Than Fresh Fish." In 1953 they were among the first to produce and market the highly popular fish sticks. Today they lease their own fishing fleet, have packing plants in Maine, Nova Scotia and California...
Whither Mackerel? The Fulhams believe that the New England fishing industry can solve many of its own problems-if only it will. New England fishermen, like others on both the East and West Coasts, have been hard hit by heavy foreign imports (which amounted to 35% of the U.S. consumption in 1956), consumer apathy to fish (per capita consumption:11 lbs., v. 160 Ibs. for meat), and the high cost of operating, repairing and replacing boats. But many of the industry's troubles are the result of antiquated ideas and unwise practices. Says Vice President Jack Fulham: "Just...
Last week Uchinadans were finding it harder than ever to resent the Americans, for the U.S. firing range is about to be completely closed down, and Uchinada's citizens, without handouts, must resign themselves to being once more working fishermen and farmers. Said Mayor Koshige Nakamura moodily: "The leading villagers are well aware that the progressives used this base affair for their own political ends." In Tokyo the often anti-American daily Asahi commented: "In the aftermath of Uchinada are many issues on which all Japanese would do well to ponder calmly...
...judgment that would be given by most U.S. physicians, K. was not "mad" in the opinion of his fellows. He became one of the most respected members of his community-a leader in the practice of medicine. For K. is a shaman among the Yakut, a primitive tribe of fishermen and reindeer hunters in the arctic wastes of eastern Siberia. Moral drawn by State of Mind: one man's madness in one society is another's greatness in a different culture...