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Seattle: Wharves were clear but no bottoms were available at a time when lumber and logs, wheat and flour, canned salmon, apples, should soon be moving. (Apple shippers were grim; Great Britain. Germany, France take all their exports.) It looked as if Seattle's $1,000,000-a-day export trade would be reduced to a trickle...
...Dogged by fogs which delayed the comings & goings of his mail planes, he cruised on the Tuscaloosa to Halifax and Sydney, N. S., thence to Bay of Islands and Bonne Bay, Newfoundland. Not since he and his cousin Gracie Hall Roosevelt went there in 1908 had he fished for salmon in the gorge of Newfoundland's Humber River. Water and weather were perfect but Fisherman Roosevelt landed no salmon after trying all day. Brigadier General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson got the party's one fish and Mr. Roosevelt issued a statement: "His unique specimen, while not the fattest...
...Salmon fishing, the principal industry, now tops any other fishery in the world, while salmon is an inexhaustible resource, with production limited only by the U. S. appetite...
...Indian victims of Canadian religious persecution got U. S. permission to settle in Alaska, founded Alaska's first refugee colony at Metlakatla. They fished for salmon, now have Alaska's most prosperous municipality. With publicly owned utilities, a 60-piece band, Alaska's only municipal hall, modern Met-lakatlans have fine homes (onefourth have organs or pianos), own boats valued from...
Because a Paris weekly (Pour Vous) reported that she had been angling for a job as Nazi propagandist, sullen-eyed, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec), 40, got herself up in a salmon-pink outfit, stormed into court, demanded 1,000,000 francs damages. Last week Cinemactress Negri was awarded 10,000 francs (about...