Word: oysterer
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...same time the most exclusive of all orders of chivalry. . . . † It is recruited from that very limited circle of men who see what is needed to be done, and do it at once at their own peril, and having done it, shut up like an oyster...
Unchanged has been this ordered routine for 15,000,000 years, unless the Smithsonian Institute is deceived about the age of the shells in its cases. But not until the year 100 B. C. did the world take an active interest in the sex life of the oyster. The first to make a study of oyster love was one Sergius Grata, who founded an oyster farm on Italy's Lake Lucrine. The last was omnivorous General Foods Corp. which last week announced the formation of a new subsidiary. Bluepoints Co. Inc., to take over the assets of the North...
After the initial effort, which the oyster must perform unaided, General Foods Corp. can do much to aid the progress of the baby mollusc from the sea to the dinner tables of U. S. oyster-lovers. Old shells and brush, to which oysters happily cling, can be strewn upon the breeding-beds. Twice must the oysters be trans planted: first to a growing bed in deeper water, where they will not be buried under new spawn, then to a finishing school in waters rich with food. Such a fashionable spot is Cotuit, Long Island. Here, for the last six months...
...surprising that the oyster's prodigal fertility has generated a vigorous industry. No other fishery product is as valuable. Of pure water, minus shell and waste matter, 73,000 tons, worth $14,000,000, are marketed annually. Their food equivalent is the meat of 250,000 steers. A million acres of oyster land are under cultivation; at least another million are natural oyster farms...
...huge menu of General Foods Corp. (1928 sales: $101,037,092) oysters join cereals (Postum, Grape Nuts, Post Toasties), beverages (Maxwell House Coffee, Instant Postum, Baker's Cocoa, Maxwell House Tea), as well as 34 other branded food products. From his fac tories and those of his 18 manufacturing subsidiaries, able President Colby M. Chester Jr. might select enough to sea son, sweeten and serve a nourishing poly-course dinner, in which only meat would be missing. For this deletion, meat-eating President Chester, son of a famed sea-admiral, might find satisfaction in the fishy products...