Word: fishermen
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...immigration, which built the railroads and cattle towns of the West, flowed on for another generation. Some 8.8 million arrived during the first decade of this century, and in 1907, the inspectors at Ellis Island processed an alltime daily record of some 6,500 Italian peasants and Greek fishermen and various other humble souls, many of them wide-eyed children clinging anxiously to the hands of their mothers...
...Americans come to independence with divergent interests and reasons: the fishermen, shipbuilders and merchants of New England, the traders and small farmers of the Middle Colonies, the planters and farmers of the south. The newly united states stretch 1,300 miles from Massachusetts' rocky Maine coast to the sand hills of Georgia. Sometimes regional differences, suspicions and hostilities among the colonies have been stronger than the antagonisms between England and the new continent. The celebrated old drawing depicting the colonies as separate segments of a serpent's body is hardly an exaggeration...
...ploy that stunned the Vatican. For voters who care, there is a 63-page pamphlet explaining Berlinguer's call for a multiparty government of "democratic unity." The Communists have also produced leaflets and filmstrips on specialized subjects ranging from women's rights to the plight of Italian fishermen...
When Iceland's patrol boats attempted to thwart British fishing by cutting the trawlers' costly nets and towlines, British fishermen demanded protection. London responded by ordering Royal Navy frigates into the area to shield the trawlers from the Icelandic boats. What often followed was a seaborne game of "chicken." Ships of the two countries, in fact, came so close together in the choppy waters that they collided dozens of times. To tiny Iceland (pop. 219,000), the conflict again became a matter of David's facing down Goliath. But it was also a matter of economic survival...
...promised to send no more than 24 fishing trawlers per day into Iceland's 200-mile zone, to respect Icelandic-defined fish "conservation" areas, and to permit Icelandic patrol vessels to halt and inspect British trawlers suspected of violating the agreement. This, in effect, will limit British fishermen to about 30,000 tons of cod annually from the disputed area, compared with 130,000 tons last year. Moreover, some 1,500 British seamen and 7,500 workers ashore may lose their jobs because of the reduced cod catch...