Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mission was supposed to be a secret, but nearly everybody in Washington knew that staffers of the new Nixon Club were beaver-busy organizing a presidential campaign under the benign and smoothly efficient direction of the most successful Republican political cam paign manager in U.S. history-Leonard Hall of Oyster...
...Pearls Proprietary Ltd. chose an isolated bay, named in honor of Pearler Kuribayashi, brought in an experienced team of 36 to start work. Into the big shells the pearlers inserted a special bead of shell cut from a big Mississippi River "pigtoe" mussel, then grafted in a piece of oyster flesh that was already exuding pearl-forming nacre. The first crop from the 100,000 oysters was harvested secretly in June 1958, and the results were staggering. Though only 30% of the seeded oysters produced pearls, there were thousands of big, beautiful pearls; the best was nine-tenths...
Japan's famed culture-pearl industry produces pearls of similar quality, but the oysters suited to Japan's waters rarely develop a pearl bigger than two-fifths of an inch in diameter, and take between five and seven years in the process. By contrast, Australia's giant "silver lips" oyster shells are as big as dinner plates, can produce pearls twice as big as Japanese pearls in less than two years. The quality is so high that experts cannot tell Kuri Bay's from the best natural pearls without...
While Author Kieran easily makes his point that nature endures all things, even concrete and steel, he also chronicles the species that have been pushed beyond the city limits-the oyster, the deer, the bobcat and beaver. Among the latest to leave is snowy-thatched, Latin-quoting John Kieran himself. The story on nature in New York is complete and compelling, but the story was filed from Rockport, Mass. His ancient habitat, a rambling Riverdale house where once a flying squirrel was a steady customer at a bird-feeding station, is now a stretch of concrete in the Henry Hudson...
...OYSTER BLIGHT is creating unsavory stew for oystermen in Delaware Bay and along East Coast. Bills pending in Congress would allow Government loans to oystermen at 3% interest until Interior Department can stem disease that will further shorten supply and increase prices...