Word: haddock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shirley Temple. Among other features of Stand Up and Cheer are two U. S. Senators (Mitchell and Durante) who proceed from an argument about the tariff to a slapstick vaudeville tumbling act; a scene in which Stepin Fetchit goes wading in a goldfish bowl hoping to catch a haddock; a pleasing song called "Baby Take...
...they sped towards the Mid-Western metropolis with their fish. In a small hamlet near Erle, Pa., they stopped and put in a long-distance call to several of the largest Chicago hotels, clubs, and restaurants, telling each, "We are just leaving Marblehead, Massachusetts, with a truckload of fresh haddock, which we guarantee to have in Chicago in ten hours, by plane, train, and truck relays. Our prices are only a few cents over the Chicago market price. May we offer, etc....". By the next morning they had driven to Chicago, and sold all their fish, paid for the truck...
...familiar to fiction readers and cinemaddicts. But songs of flying, unlike cowboys' and sailors' songs, have never been collected in print. In the May-June issue of Sportsman Pilot, out last week, appeared the beginning of an anthology of flying songs. First contributions came from John C. Haddock, Pennsylvania mining engineer and sportsman pilot. Pilot Haddock recalled a chantey by which student aviators in the Navy were taught the rudiments of safe flying, each verse pointing a moral. Excerpts...
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...