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...side, began to pull up the first of the "gang" nets, each "gang" made up of 24 gill nets 4 ft. wide and 300 ft. long, which may extend for a mile and a half. Motors of the automatic net lifters began to cough. With thousands of lake herring trapped by their gills in the 2½-in. meshes, the nets poured into the boats for two hours a glistening stream of thousands of pounds of fish. Nets cleared, lunch eaten and new nets set, the fishing fleet turned homeward, from Duluth to Munising, Mich...
Netted Fish. Thus last week, as it has for so many Novembers, the Great Lakes annual herring run began. But this year's catch meant more than another dish for the U.S. dinner table. In point of total tonnage, the small lake herring (9 to 15 in. long, 5 to 7 oz. in weight) is the biggest single catch taken annually from the teeming Great Lakes waters, which are the biggest single source of fresh-water fish in America. This year, despite the manpower shortage and a run almost two weeks late in starting, lake fishermen hope to lift...
...with her mother, who holds her to a strict daily routine: 10:30 to noon, voice lesson; 1 to 3, operatic coaching; 3 to 4, Italian lesson; 4 to 5, French lesson; 5 to 6, another voice lesson. At 6 Patrice is entitled to dinner. Her favorite dish: pickled herring with an onion on an apple...
...average American Revolutionary was an ignorant shopkeeper-turned-farmer who went broke in England, emigrated to a promised land where the best he could do was to farm enough to keep his growing family alive. He planted a herring with his crops because the Indians did-and it seemed to help them grow. But it never occurred to him that his oxen's manure would make better fertilizer. He refused to use a metal plow because he thought iron poisoned the soil...
...Norrlands biff" (socalled "beef of the north," which is about 75% wood pulp). Cigarets are vague combinations of Turkish tobacco and Swedish hay. The traditional smörgasbord has virtually disappeared because bread is the most severely rationed of all foods except meat. Prized Iceland and Norwegian fat herring are no longer available, good cheese is scarce. The greatest loss is that of coffee. Swedes like it hot, strong and often, were the world's greatest per-capita consumers before the war. They now have 300 ersatz types...