Word: ops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debt-ridden fishermen, fed up to their sou'westers, started a cooperative: Syndicat des Pêcheurs de Grande Rivière. They bought their gear wholesale, sold their fish cooperatively, ended the year with $3,276 surplus or $109 apiece. By last year the co-op had 90 members and earned $39,984 surplus, better than $400 a man. A draft, now figured at 224 lbs., fetched $12. Wartime prices for cod had helped, but the big saving had been in fishing costs. In World War I, when prices generally were even higher, a draft fetched only...
Last week, well into the June-October fishing season, Grande Rivière's co-op fishermen were getting a cash advance of $6.72 a draft, with a co-op dividend to be added later. It looked like the best year...
...foot in her apartment, Gisele's "boys" were there to stay. They dozed in the daytime, stayed awake nights "so there would not be too many warm beds in case of a Gestapo raid." Three of the hunted, Peter Goldschmidt (22), Simon van Keulen (19) and Harry Op het Veld (19) spent their nights sitting around a table lit by a wick in brilliantine, drawing. There was not much paper, so they took as long as possible on each picture...
...reckoning and doom, they giggled and gossiped. In the role created by Robert Jackson, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan was pushing a sober trial of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." But Prosecutor Kee nan (who looks like W. C. Fields) had to deal with the opéra bouffe element which the West so often finds in the Japanese character. The chief Jap defendant, Hideki Tojo, picked his nose unconcernedly and flirted with an American stenographer. Hiroshi Oshima, wartime ambassador to Germany, affected the dandy, with white pocket handkerchief, smart bow tie and black-ribboned pince...
...object of their admiration was 40-year-old Gertrude O'Brady from Evanston, Ill. She was the protégée of Critic Anatole Jakovsky (Bref), who led the field by burbling: "O'Brady is the only great painter of the New World." Critic Maximilien Gauthier (Opéra) predicted that O'Brady would become a "great name in the history...