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Largest employer of labor in Gloucester. Mass, is Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co., Ltd. Its plants, stretching along Gloucester's busy waterfront, turn out such fishy products as ready-to-fry codfish cakes, ready-to-use codfish, clam chowder, haddock chowder, flaked fish, haddock fillet, cod liver oil, fish meal...
Like all food companies, Gorton-Pew faces lower selling prices. Tinker mackerel, haddock, cod and other piscine products sell at about half what they did two years ago. But like other food companies Gorton-Pew's faith is buttressed by the knowledge that people must eat. And in many a U. S. home the codfish ball is still a Friday night and Sunday morning institution. The better to send forth cod to hungry consumers, last week Gorton-Pew opened a new plant which can turn out 48,000 10-oz. cans of ready-to-fry codfish cakes...
...Gorton-Pew calls itself the world's largest fish producing organization although its assets of $2,090,000 are topped by the $6,154,000 assets of Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co. whose main plant is at Groton, Conn. Its Man at the Wheel (portrait of an elderly fisherman guiding a schooner through a heavy sea) is famed among trademarks. And its president is known to the industry as a good man to have at any wheel. He is Thomas James Carroll, 64, whose life has been close to that of Gloucester and its fishermen. His father, an Irish...
After this second death, Mr. Carroll left grammar school and was paid 6? an hour for "picking codfish sounds." The sound is the fish's air bladder which, ripped from the backbone, dried and cured, makes isinglass. Later he went to work for Slade Gorton, a pop-eyed man as round as a hogshead who had been one of the founders of Slade Gorton & Co. in 1849. When he was 16 Tom Carroll was considered experienced enough to split fish. Then he became a skinner, ripping the parchment-like skin from dried fish. The skin is used largely...
...rays must be shot out of the vacuum tube through a very thin metal window into the open air, and then upon material to be examined. This is exceedingly difficult to accomplish. Air tends to dissipate and absorb cathode rays before they can strike x-rays from anything. Dr. Gorton Rosa Fonda exhibited a stubby, 12-in. tube which produces an extraordinary amount of cathode rays in air as a bluish haze around an aluminum window. The device produces 70,000-volt rays from no-volt house current, can be carried with transformers anywhere that quantitative analyses are needed...