Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mystery of the starfish is how he can be such a successful foe of clams and oysters. He attaches his sucking "tube-feet" to a bivalve, opens it, inserts his mobile stomach, eats and digests his victim. But apparently the starfish lacks the strength to open an oyster. In doing that job, a human being usually appreciates the aid of a knife. The force required was reported in Science last week by Professor Albert Moore Reese of West Virginia University. He pulled oysters and clams apart with a large spring scale attached to steel hooks inserted in notches...
...oyster withstood a pull of three pounds (more than a starfish's estimated strength) for 40 hours, did not open until a 22-lb. pull was applied. Another oyster held on against 30 Ib. Several clams stood 25 Ib. before their shells, not their muscles, broke. One oyster withstood a 3-lb. pull for five days before opening one-fiftieth of an inch, for eight days before opening a quarter of an inch (a tight squeeze for even a hungry starfish's stomach...
...Others-stenographers, schoolteachers, movie starlets-are hard put to compete with the high pay and patriotic glamor of war jobs. The first conductorettes on Los Angeles streetcars looked as though they had come right out of a nightclub chorus line. There is hardly any job-truck driver, mechanic, cobbler, oyster shucker, engineer, bartender, butcher, baker or candlestick maker-that women cannot get if they want them and more & more women are getting them...
Major Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late Teddy, took part in his first action against the Japs-a reconnaissance flight over Kiska. Back home, his 20-room manor at Oyster Bay, L.I., was opened as a convalescent home for torpedoed merchant seamen. Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, reviewing a parade of WAACs at Fort Des Moines, congratulated the leader of the winning group of marchers so successfully that Margaret M. Wheatley burst into tears. Emily Bradley Saltonstall, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor, enlisted in the WAVES in Boston as an apprentice seaman. Alfred Ryder, 26, long the "Sammy" of Radio...
...short crop and increased operating costs have jacked prices up about 10% to $912 a barrel, depending upon size. Since there is no OPA ceiling on fresh oysters, prices might have gone still higher except that hotels and restaurants balked, said they could not pay more when their oyster bar prices have been pegged at a flat 50 or 60? per dozen for years. With the haul down more than prices are up, the U.S. oyster industry will take in about $8,000,000 this year, somewhat less than...