Word: halibut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exceptions: the liver oils of some fish, notably cod and halibut; egg yolks (small quantities) and milk (minute amounts). Milk and many other foods are now "vitamin D enriched" by ultraviolet irradiation...
...produce 700,000 eggs at the flip of a gill, was long one of the leading population exploders in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Loaded with oil and bone, the eight-inch fish is about as welcome at a dining table as last Friday's halibut. Still, it is avidly sought by commercial fishermen because its oil is used in everything from lipstick to paint, and its meat and bones can be ground into high-protein animal feed...
Relations between sport fishermen and their commercial cousins have never been exactly cordial. Lately they have been strained to the breaking point. No longer satisfied with harvestIng such traditional "meat" fish as cod, halibut, salmon and the smaller tunas, commercial fishermen from Japan, Scandinavia and Russia have now invaded the world's best sport-fishing areas with superefficient methods that devastate the population of rare game fish. In the once renowned waters off New Zealand's Mayor Island, where 900 big fish-swordfish, striped and black marlin -were boated in 1949, not a single billfish of any size...
...Canada last year ordered a Russian fleet out of the Bay of Fundy. Even the conference table can become chilly; last week in Tokyo, Japanese, U.S. and Canadian delegates labored through the fifth week of a conference stalemated by a U.S.Canadian refusal to let Japanese fishermen fish for trout, halibut and salmon east of the 175th longitude...
...garden and chatted. Said Joe Kennedy: "I'd rather talk than walk." Struck for 2½ days by 700 waiters, cooks, bellhops and elevator operators, Manhattan's gilded Waldorf-Astoria bravely carried on. Accountants clapped j together tuna-fish sandwiches as substitutes for halibut thermidor. At a $25-a-plate dinner attended by Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the lobster bisque was omitted for fear that clerks and junior executives would slop it all over the 1,200 guests. Even Bossman Conrad (Be My Guest) Hilton, 74. saw emergency service. During a party on the 18th-floor Starlight Roof...