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...least 60 miles away from the Korean coast. Southwest in the East China Sea, the Far East's best trawling grounds, the Japanese may not come within 100 miles of the Communist China coast. The coastal waters of North America, once a plentiful source of salmon and halibut, are now closed to Japan by a U.S. Canadian agreement that occupied Japan was persuaded to sign. And in the vast mid-Pacific tuna and bonito grounds, the U.S. has posted a 421,500-sq.-mi. nuclear testing area, which jittery Japanese fishermen have given a wide berth since radioactive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Forbidden Waters | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

Fish Fry. Frozen sticks of bottom fish (cod, halibut, etc.), dipped in batter and ready for quick cooking, are being put on the market by Seattle's San Juan Fishing & Packing Co. Such uncooked "Fish Stix" are the newest entry in the packers' race to tap the fast-growing fish-stick market. Frozen fish sticks, already cooked, are already being turned out by packers from the Northwest to New England, are selling at the rate of 7,262,000 Ibs. (more than $4,000,000 worth) a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...brought Panamanian Indian costumes for the Eisenhower grandchildren), Crown Prince Olav of Norway, and Chiang Kai-shek's eldest son, Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo (who presented him with a Formosan edition of his book, Crusade in Europe). He also got a 7 ft., 200-lb. pop-eyed halibut from Representative Thor Tollefson of Washington State. "Gee whiz," said the President when he met the monster fish on a porch bordering the Rose Garden, "I've never seen such a big fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Busy | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...Aviv, Mistress Sharett prodded anxiously at the roast of beef (frozen), which she feared might not be tender enough for the Foreign Minister's official dinner that night; in Jerusalem, Mistress Ben-Gurion summoned the sentry outside her home to help her tear the skin off a monster halibut (also frozen), which she wanted to steam with lemon sauce for the Secretary's lunch with the Premier next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Dulles on the Road | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...Bring your own gun for duck hunting, shrimp fishing, crabbing, trolling for King Salmon, jigging for halibut, skiing, hiking, and walking," Rosemary Reilly-Baughm, the school's admissions director, said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S.E. Alaska University Issues 'Call of the Wild' to Scholars | 1/17/1953 | See Source »

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