Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FISHES, by Brian Wildsmith (Watts; $4.95), presents a selection of collective nouns (a battery of barracuda, a glide of flying fish) with marvelous paintings...
...Lenore and Erik Blegvad (Harcourt, Brace & World; $3.50), is a counting book that includes notions like "three million is for fish" and "ten million is for stars...
...Norway, where whale oil has been used as an ingredient in margarine, the price has fallen largely because of heavy competition from fish oil; whale oil is now $163 a ton, one-third less than it was a decade ago. One way to overcome the price drop might be to follow the Japanese example and process every part of a whale, from tooth to tail fluke. But this means a considerable extra investment in factory-ship equipment that the Norwegians are no longer willing to make, especially since their government, while urging them to continue whaling, has offered no subsidy...
Mumma and Fish both praised the proposed changes yesterday...
...nature of the new ministry will depend on the composition of the governing committee, yet to be named. Mumma said that he is "not planning or hoping" to be asked back, and that he as well as Fish are making other plans. Funkhouser said, however, that Mumma might consider accepting a position under a sympathetic committee. And "the first people [the committee] would look at" are the people currently involved, Fish said last night...