Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a few years ago the salmon industry in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska was a booming, $100-million-a-year business. Now it is gasping and dying. Last week salmon fishermen estimated that sales in 1953 will drop to $55 million, and that this year's catch will be the second smallest in 40 years...
...fishing industry ir New England has slumped so badly that boats are sailing south to try for shrimp. Nine boats have already left New Bedford, Mass, for the Gulf, and ten others are scheduled to leave soon. Fishermen say skidding prices, rising costs and Canadian competition are ruining their business...
...been as content with his own talent as the public was, Wyeth might have remained a minor painter. But he kept expanding his capacity to picture things with ever-increasing clarity. Pennsylvania fields and farmers, Maine inlets and fishermen, old houses and musty rooms were his favorite subjects. As the clarity of his work increased, the sentimental side of Wyeth's subject matter diminished in importance. Last winter, at 35; Wyeth sat down to paint a practically empty picture. It became the hit of his exhibition at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries last week...
...first Indonesians to embrace Islam in the 11th century and the last to be pacified by the Dutch (1904). Some centuries ago the Achinese were intrepid pirates, raiding Western shipping, and attacking fortified towns in quest of slaves, concubines and booty. In modern times they have been peaceful farmers, fishermen and plantation workers. But they still reach for their weapons when aroused; and last week the Achinese were in bloody revolt against the Indonesian government at Jakarta, on the neighboring (and more populous) island of Java...
...phytoplankton is probably too small, but great whales gather the zooplankton, and man should be able to do the same. Dr. Weiss quotes a British opinion that two fishermen with suitable nets could catch about 600 Ibs. of zooplankton a day off the coast of Scotland. The stuff is a paste with a delicate shrimpy flavor...