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...hundreds of bays and inlets along the upper Atlantic Coast this week there was a splash of activity: the oyster season had opened.* Oystermen clambered into their tug-like boats, chug-chugged to the beds, used big dredges to pull bivalves from the bottom, came home gunwales deep with shellfish. To landlubbers everything looked the same. But veteran oystermen knew better...
Main difference is that this year's oyster haul is estimated at only 15,000,000 bushels, 20% below last year and the smallest in 21 years. One reason: an oyster takes four to five years to reach full maturity, but because of starfish, drills, other oyster hazards the 1939 baby crop (ticketed for 1942 plates and palates) was below par. But they will taste as good as ever, thanks to drenching August rains which washed larger amounts of minerals from the land onto oyster beds...
...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...
...former U.S. reporter in Japan about reporters, small-time samurai, international traders in pre-Pearl Harbor Tokyo. The story: an American newspaper man and a beautiful little Japanese girl cannot marry because the girl's father says no. Arbitrarily attached to this framework, like seaweed to an empty oyster shell, are some filamental anecdotes about Japanese officialdom and Tokyo's foreign colony. The characterization is stiff, the local color dim. This is that book all newspaper men are going to write instead of hanging around in bars. It might have been a better book if the author...
...Invaders," newest celluloid to glorify the democratic way of life, brings to mind that part from "The Walrus and the Carpenter" that goes: "Four other oysters followed them, and yet another four; and thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more--all hopping through the frothy waves, and scrambling to the shore." This particular oyster tastes a little different from "Night Train," "Man Hunt," "Mortal Storm," and "Confessions of a You-Know-What Spy," but it is unmistakably of the same brand of sea food...