Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DIVERSIFICATION will keep Swift & Co., Armour & Co. and Cudahy Packing Co. from expanding into sales of nonmeat products such as fish, vegetables, flour, sugar, cigars, china and furniture. U.S. District Court reaffirmed 40-year-old antitrust decree that bars the big packers from entering retail trade, which they want...
...dugong is a ludicrous-looking aquatic mammal that nurses its young at its breast. Sighting these strange creatures centuries ago. sailors plowing Asian seas came home claiming that they had seen women with tails like fish-and thereby started the mermaid legend. Modern scientists paid deference to the legend of the sea sirens by assigning the dugong to the order Sirenia. See SCIENCE, The Useful Manatee...
There are pleasant things, to be sure, in all of this, and there is one strong feat of acting. But there is no harmony of mood or certainty of movement; trying its luck with this thing and that, Camelot has made a fish pond of its story rather than a widening stream, and provides an evening that for all its sumptuous adornments seems curiously empty...
...Dried Fish. This is just the beginning of the profits he intends to wrest from the jungle. Next he plans to buy another 1,200,000 acres of nearby land and clear enough so he can grow more cane and build a refinery to supply the sugar needs of the whole territory. After that he hopes to build a plant to dry fish caught in the Rio Madeira, sell them for 20? to 30? for 2.2 Ibs. in the Amazon basin to replace the imported dried codfish that sells for $1. Furthermore, the rubber and Brazil nut trees soon will...
...WONDERS of LIFE on EARTH, by the Editors of LIFE and Lincoln Barnett 300 pp.; $12.50), is an ambitious panorama of evolution. In hundreds of startling photographs and drawings, supported by a sound text, the history of bird fish, plant, insect and animal life is made exceptionally clear...