Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most and best protein. When the chemists learned how to grow the bugs in quantity, they filtered them out of the culture, separated them from all traces of petroleum and fed them to laboratory animals. Ihe < bugs proved to be an excellent protein concentrate, comparable in nutrient value to fish meal or soya cake. They are rich in B vitamins and lysine, the important aminoacid that is missing from protein made from grain...
...shop specializes both in gifts for younger children and in novelty science, items, such as prehistoric shark teeth and porcupine fish (the real thing...
...especially geared to young customers, it has built up a steady clientele of day-after-allowance purchasers, who find they can pick up material for projects or curiosity at bargain rates. It was difficult to find an exact answer as to what constitutes a bargain for a porcupine fish, however...
They would have little to go back to. An advance party that returned to Tristan last August reported that the volcano had ruined most of their houses, killed all their sheep, and destroyed the fish-freezing plant where many earned their living. But there were still fish in the sea, enough land for their potato crop, and green grass for the cattle. The exiles could hardly wait to leave. For though they had found good jobs and a warm reception in "h'England," most islanders -who are descended from sailors shipwrecked on the island in the 19th century -just...
Best bit: Jerry, always helpful, grabs a fish pole from a lady angler when she gets a bite, yanks on it hard, loses the fish, staggers backward, tangles poles with another angler, staggers backward knocking over anglers, poles, bait buckets, lunch baskets and trash cans, till at last he winds up splat in the middle of the first this-is-me-and-the-big-fish-I-caught snapshot ever taken with the subject's head in the fish's mouth...