Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeing an opportunity for himself in Castro's sprawling program of land reform, Morgan talked the Agriculture Ministry into giving him charge of a fish hatchery. He raised carp, sunfish and black bass, read up on frogs, soon was ready to expand. Taking over 430 acres of a confiscated ranch along Lake Ariguanabo, Morgan spent $40,000 of the ministry's money digging ditches to hold his frogs, another $30,000 stocking the farm with frogs caught by peasants in the streams and marshes of western Cuba...
...frogs daily, shipping 1½ tons of legs to a cannery in the nearby town of Güines. "Cuba shipped $1,000,000 worth of frogs' legs to the U.S. last year," says Morgan. "I'm going to double that." He dehydrates the frog carcasses into "fish meal" for cattle, plans to use the skins to make purses and belts...
...retailers were asking for gallon bottles. Parker finally discovered that its popularity was due to a thirst for education: pregnant mothers were drinking ink in the hope that their children would be born knowing how to write. Other companies have found shoe polish used as face cream, soap as fish bait, hair cream as sandwich spread...
...other canvases that his father had only briefly hung. And his father's old friends are being more than sympathetic. Upon reading of the robbery, Bernard Buffet promptly sent Roux a painting of a ram's head to replace the Golden Dove's stolen fish...
...Tacora junkyard when a fellow drove up in this car. I tell you I got a bargain. That was eleven years ago, and this car makes at least $7.25 a day for me. I carry as many as twelve passengers and bags of potatoes, green corn, fish, small pigs and goats, live chickens. Sometimes when the car is full I carry the chickens on my lap." Adds Driver Félix Bernaola, who runs a durable 1928 Ford sedan: "I average 150 miles daily, and in 14 hours I use about 15 gallons of gas and about a quart...