Word: novas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great day came last week, but thick clouds spoiled the fun for much of the eastern U.S. Astronomers, forewarned, had readied more precise instruments than the earthbound human eye. At Boston, a group of Harvardmen borrowed a Coast Guard patrol plane, found a patch of open sky near Nova Scotia. The meteors, they reported, streaked across the sky about 17 per minute, most of them as bright as Venus. Said Harvard's famed Dr. Harlow Shapley: "It was the richest show we've had in this century...
...summer, wind-bitten Nova Scotian schoonermen had put into Lunenburg and Halifax with fresh fish and frayed tempers. Now that the war was over, big (500 to 1,200-ton) Portuguese and Spanish trawlers were back in numbers on the Quero (from Banquereau) Bank. Bluenose skippers howled that they were trying to run Canadian schooners (80-90 tonners) off the grounds...
...Nova Scotian seamen this was serious business. The Quero Bank is the mainstay of their fresh fish industry. It is close enough to shore (just over 200 miles) for them to chug out, ice down a load of cod, haddock and halibut, and get back in five to six days. If foreign trawlers continued to shove them off Quero, Canadians would have to go twice as far, to the Grand Bank off Newfoundland, for less profitable salt...
...nova-like flare-up of the sun might happen tomorrow." If it did, the sunny side of the earth would be burned to a crisp in half an hour, the oceans would boil away in live steam. Within a few days the world would be vapor...
...strike deadline neared, Ottawa nervously upped its ante to 12^, and removed the wage differential in Nova Scotia (5?an hour less). Labor came down to the equivalent of 15½. Under extended wartime powers, Hump Mitchell could fine anyone $20 a day who defied the seizure and refused to work, and jail and fine those interfering with the seizure order. But he also knew that arrests would not make steel...