Word: halibut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beginning with a discussion of rivers, plains, mountain ranges, rainfall, Stuart Chase proceeds to long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster catch declined from 25 million bushels in 1901 to 16 million...
...heavy beef cattle, 51,933 calves less than 175 lb. each, and 20,000 dairy cattle per year; a 20% to 40% cut for 750,000 bu. a year of seed potatoes; 43% off for 1,500,000 gal. a year of cream; half off on halibut; $2.50 instead of $5 per gallon on whiskey aged four years or more in the wood; half off on lumber with an annual limitation to 250,000,000 board feet on Douglas fir and western hemlock. In addition, the U. S. agreed to keep on the free list wood pulp and newsprint, crude...
...Gray puts his lead patients on a diet low in calcium, high in phosphorus. They avoid milk, most important source of calcium, and eat quantities of phosphorous-rich eggs, whole wheat bread, lamp chops, liver, green peas, pineapple juice, baked potatoes, halibut. The deleading must not go on too rapidly, said Dr. Gray, otherwise the lead may be disastrously shifted into the central nervous system...
President Roosevelt shook hands all around, congratulated the crew on the salute of 21 foghorn blasts the Thebaud had paid the Sequoia down the river. The fishermen gave the President a 50-lb. halibut. "Just about enough to feed my family," chuckled Mr. Roosevelt, before cracking the old joke about the young bride who ordered six halibut for dinner. The Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy remembered well how one of the fleet's schooners had been sunk by German submarines...
Competition among the cod liver oil sellers was not nearly so bad before what happened last year when Dr. Halibut Fish was certified as an accumulator of concentrated Vitamin A in his liver. His Vitamin D content was less significant. Abbott Laboratories of Chicago and Parke, Davis fortified A-rich halibut liver oil with viosterol (a concentrated Vitamin D), called the product haliver (portmanteau for halibut liver) oil with viosterol, and exploited the trade name Haliver so vigorously, that Mead Johnson last month took six consecutive pages of advertising in one journal to remind doctors, in large sultry yellow, type...