Word: fishing
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Businessmen call it "the Peruvian miracle," and by all odds it is one of Latin America's brightest success stories. In 1950, imaginative Peruvian entrepreneurs started netting the immense schools of anchovy in coastal waters and processing the small silvery fish into fish meal, a high-protein poultry and livestock food. So rich was the harvest and so great the demand that plants went up all along the coast. Today, fish meal is the country's biggest industry, and Peru has risen from nowhere to No. 2 rank (behind Japan) among fishing nations...
...problem now is to keep the industry from going overboard trying to make too much of a good thing. Last year, Peru processed 1,159,000 tons of fish meal from a record 6,650,000-ton catch and earned an impressive $116 million from exports. But this year there are fears of a smaller haul, with a sharp fall-off in dollars...
...only for "humanitarian motives," because Wynne was reported ailing-and perhaps also because the government had an uneasy conscience over having used a more or less unwitting nonprofessional. Said one British official: "This sort of trade makes it too bloody easy for the other side-we catch a big fish and they pick up some professor who has been asking about the wheat crop. If one of our real agents gets caught, then it's his duty to shut up and take what's coming and, if necessary, to die for his country...
Therese appears obnoxious not because she marries the boor in the first place, nor because she fails even to try to make a go of it (this girl's so sensitive she's a fish in her wedding bed). What is so insufferable is that Mauriac and Franju create such a sympathetic Therese...
...jobs a month but not the 2,000 workers to fill them. The result, says Sydney's Sunday Telegraph, "is the feeling among certain trade unions that full employment provides the excuse for tactics of disruption." In February, 40 boilermakers struck one company because they could not get fish and chips for their Friday lunch, and last month 300 iron workers walked off a job at the Sydney engineering works of Tulloch, Ltd. because management would not unlock a door to save them a 200-yd. walk in the rain...