Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacation city. From six to nine the tiny Nacional bar was crowded with delegates of all nationalities, newsmen, wives and secretaries of the delegates. To the Florida, Zaragozana or Paris went the visitors to dine, then back to the Nacional for moonlight dancing or to any pack-jammed little Cuban cabaret. One night in Cathedral Square a Spanish dancing show celebrated, a day late, the 157th birthday of South America's Hero No. 1, Simon Bolivar...
...gunnery is so well-rounded he is also an anti-aircraft ace. Spectacled, dark, pinched, with a close-clipped mustache, he looks more like a "City" broker than the soldier-sportsman that he is (in the Army since 1902). His fox-hunting Irish father was Master of the Pau pack (supposed descendants of hounds with which Wellington's officers hunted in Spain). Sir Alan, who was born and raised in France, is one of the Empire's finest wing shots and anglers, and he once rode down and speared a wolf from horseback...
Though tuna may migrate without notice, packers cannot. Biggest Northern States packer is Astoria's William Leonard Thompson (no kin to the oceanographer), board chairman of C. R. P. A. But C. R. P. A. was famed for its salmon pack-Bristol Bay's Alaska Red, Columbia River's Fancy Chinook. So when the first albacore came to him in 1937, big, whispering, hard-hitting Bill Thompson, 60, sent them to California for processing and packing. California packers condemned twelve carloads. Roaring "To hell with that-we'll can 'em ourselves," Bill Thompson...
Californians fought to keep control of the pack. Last year fishermen enjoyed a North-South price war, which hoisted prices from $90 to as high as $150 a ton for their catch. Oregon finally topped California by a standing offer of $2.50 more than any price California wanted to name. (Apparently chastened, neither side has moved to start a new war this season.) California packers next carried the fight to Washington, asked the Federal Trade Commission for permission to label their tuna extra fancy. Thompson and his friends, new hosts to the albacore, claimed that only their tuna merited such...
ARTHUR N. PACK...