Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mercer Girdler from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburgh's great "family" steel company. Last year Jones & Laughlin made Mr. Girdler president, having heard that the Eaton interests were negotiating with him, so that his departure from Jones & Laughlin indicated that Mr. Eaton had some large fish ready to fry. Mr. Girdler, who has spent nearly 30 years in various steel mills, swears vigorously and always keeps his hat on, to be ready for emergency calls...
...classes, commercial attaches and trade commissioners. At Washington their reports are assembled and presented in a periodical pamphlet called What the World Wants. There it may be found this week that Rosario, Argentina, will buy buggy wheels; that Nottingham, England, wants battery chargers; Lagos, Nigeria, needs canned fish and lump sugar. Other world wants noted in the latest bulletins: kitchen sinks at Bordeaux; machines to make banana flour at Lourengo Marquez. Portuguese East Africa; fertilizer grinders at Batavia; sneakers and sporting wear at Mukden; fountain pens at Calcutta; corsets at Berlin; oilcloth at Cairo...
...annual class dinner at the Harvard Club on December 11 at 6.30 0'clock. Alumni of this class from distant points are expected to be present, many of them bringing their sons as guests. The late Percy Haughton, and Mayor Nichols were both members of this class. H. H. Fish is treasurer and Arthur Adams secretary of the class...
...yowling, meowing- last week a National Pet show filled Manhattan's ever sightful and soundful Madi- son Square Garden. There were 5,000 animals of all sizes, shapes, means of locomotion. There was a sombre Mongolian dromedary, an Indian baby elephant, ocelot (beast), a toucan (bird), a guppie (fish). Professor George Yoeger of Brooklyn took Trixie, his dancing, boxing dog. From New Jersey went Buster, 18-month-old chimpanzee who drinks Coca-Cola, hugs his mistress. Mme. Frieda Hempel. famed prima donna, wandered among the exhibits, her maid following with Master Toby, the Hempel pomeranian who has crossed...
Snugly tidied for the winter last week were the fishing villages along the Burin peninsula, which projects southward from southern Newfoundland. Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins. Warehouses held stacks of dried and salted codfish, the season's catch, ready to be shipped for profit-to buy calico, yarn, sweaters, boots. Men prophesied a serene winter. Then the fish-giving sea howled unwontedly. A great swoop of water slapped against the shore. It fell back, slapped up again and again. Rent, twisted, smashed, into flotsam went wharves, stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed...