Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incredible Great Lakes smelt situation was so described last week by Dr. John Van Oosten of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The vast smelt population of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron (where some 95% of U.S. fresh water smelts lived) had suddenly vanished. Two years ago fishermen took 5,000,000 Ib. of smelts there; last year, 1,000,000. Total catch this winter: 2 Ib. No one knew why the smelts had died...
Originally from Maine fresh-water lakes, the smelts were transplanted to Michigan's Crystal Lake in 1912 as food for salmon. The salmon unaccountably disappeared, but the smelts thrived, soon spread through the Great Lakes. In Huron and Michigan fishermen dipping for bigger fish found them a nuisance. Developed into a popular table delicacy, the silver smelts became a big industry in the past decade; prices jumped from ½ to 4? a Ib. This year OPA had counted on smelts for 10,000,000 Ib. of food...
...catch one of a number of trains back. When you go to visit her without means of automotive transport, there is a limited number of prospects before you. Two, in fact. Visiting the corner drug store for a soda and walking around the dimly lit and grassy shores of Lake Waban. The latter type of entertainment is recommended for them...
...Kirkland Lake she met and married Prospector Ernest Martin, later a partner of Sir Harry Oakes who was murdered in the Bahamas last year. Together the Martins wielded pick & shovel in bitter cold weather to make their properties produce. The properties obliged nobly. At one time th? Martins owned 90,000 shares of Lake Shore mining company stock-$50 a share. Mary Martin, 69, and weather-beaten, died in Oakville, Ont. last December. Last week her will, filed for probate, disclosed that she left $71,700 in real estate, $17,686 in mortgages, $28,138 in jewels...
...stock be tossed into the sea in a modern version of the Boston Tea Party the liquidation was conducted along orthodox lines. With great dignity N.W.M.C. held a two-day auction in Boston, sold 23 million Ib. of wool at prices below the cost of homegrown wools. In Salt Lake City, the National Wool Growers Association was grimly mum. In San Antonio, the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association bleated: "The trade is taking these wools in preference to ours...