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...have been set, real investigations into Harvard's finances would have been made. Since the beginning of the year, we have heard only empty threats of the apocalyptic exposure of complicity, passive grumblings about all that Harvard money in all those armament-makers' coffers (recently even the old red herring of Mississippi Power and Light...
From the Chicago waterfront to the Mackinaw Bridge, the shores of Lake Michigan were taken over last month by dead alewives. The fish,*members of the herring family, washed ashore on every incoming wave, piling up on the beaches faster than bulldozers and tractors could clear them away. They filled the air with the odor of decay and drew swarms of mosquitoes and flies...
...fish against the intensity of fishing." The industry, meanwhile, is moving to what it hopes will be more productive waters. The Gulf of Mexico is one possibility. Gulf menhaden, a separate species, is still abundant. Another possibility is the fishing beds off Nova Scotia and Newfound land, where herring runs plentifully and can be used as a substitute for menhaden. In fact, Litton Industries and W. R. Grace see a potential boom in herring, and have teamed up with the Newfoundland government to test new fishing and processing techniques...
Perhaps a rush on herring would take the pressure off the menhaden. At worst, the species will go the way of the West Coast sardine, which in 1936 supplied a haul of nearly 800,000 tons-but has since dwindled to about...
Whatever the meat's merits, the industry owes its growth to Crab King Wakefield, 57, son of an Alaska salmonand-herring pioneer. Wakefield prepped at his father's processing plant at Port Wakefield on remote Afognak Island, struck out on his own after World War II to exploit the vast and virtually untouched king-crab grounds on Alaska's continental shelf. Though Japanese fleets had been catching and canning the huge crabs for years, Wakefield determined to try freezing the meat, on the theory that "when you are so far from the market that your costs...