Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Queues of grey-faced office workers, all clutching the inevitable scuffed briefcases, wait meekly outside shops that offer limited supplies of costly, clumsily packaged frozen meat and fish. Ancient streetcars labor creakily through streets empty of all but the lightest traffic. What few private automobiles there are seem to have escaped from an antique museum. When the government recently began issuing drivers' licenses, many battered Buicks and monstrous Mercedes of prewar vintage returned to the streets after years of exile in garages. Czechoslovakia's railroads, once among the best in Central Europe, today are the worst, and their...
...Massachusetts Supreme Court struck a blow to "save our world-renowned fish chowder from degenerating into an insipid broth." As all seasoned slurpers should know, New England fish chowder is full of dangerous objects-from bones to bits of shell. And when Priscilla Webster swallowed without seining at Boston's Blue Ship Tea Room, she got a bone in her throat that required hospital extraction. Miss Webster sued, won a jury verdict of $1,800. On reversing it, the Supreme Court absolved the restaurant of responsibility for the damage done by "the bone of contention," even though "we sympathize...
...strictly a chula devotee, and he is an old hand at outwitting wily females. "I'm a man," he says, "and I like male kites." This year's All-Thailand championships started in the middle of April and went on for two weeks. While vendors hawked spiced fish and chicken in the milling throngs of fans, Poon maneuvered the control ropes of his chula with hands callused by 30 years of kiting. He and his Thailand Telephone Organization team had little trouble winning their third straight national title and the King's Cup-thus proving that...
...grumbles are even louder ashore. With gold-rush enthusiasm, businessmen overborrowed-took short-term loans at interest as high as 28%-to overbuild. "They are operating in a sea of lOUs," says Victor Riveros, editor of Peru's fishing-industry journal Pesca. The industry now has a capacity of 2,000,000 tons of fish meal a year, or nearly double what it expects to sell. As a result, most of the country's 156 plants are operating at half speed; 30 are closed altogether. Last week workers marched in and seized one plant on account of three...
This week a Peruvian congressional commission is expected to propose a series of emergency relief measures, including a moratorium on federal taxes. Even if the government exempted fish-meal processors from all taxes, their average $9-a-ton profit (v. an average ,$20 in 1963) would still not cover interest on the industry's $74 million debt...