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...acre preserve. Becoming attached to the country and its citizenry, he spent some $500,000 to give it a school system, vast sums for roads and other improvements. Once when "Joe" Knapp and a party of friends were dashing in a sea-sled to his Canadian fishing camp for salmon, the boat broke down. Instantly he resolved to buy the boat company, improve the craft, sell sea-sleds in mass production like Fords. After buying and building, he discovered that masses of people did not want a 40 m.p.h. boat that could not be used at night. "And that," said...
...around Shantung and into the Yellow Sea the Sheng An clanked steadily in the swell of a monsoon. Captain Vikhmann regaled Captain Taudien and his friends with vodka, smoked salmon, caviar. The Russian captain slept mostly with the first mate's Latvian wife but nobody seemed to mind, least of all First Mate Nicholas Azariev, hospitable and easy going. Finally one night when the Sheng An was 200 miles off Shanghai, the Germans and the Swiss went to work...
...Last autumn the American Institute of Food Distribution estimated that the 1934 tomato pack would be up some 20%, the corn pack 20%, the pea pack 15%, the string bean pack 9%. The Alaska salmon pack was the biggest on record. All during summer and autumn Drought dropped into the can-makers' laps orders for hundreds of millions of cans for the meat which the Government was tinning for the unemployed. Last week Continental Can Co. announced that 1934 had been the best year in history, with profits of $10,707,000 against...
Predecessor. When Mr. Morgenthau sits at his desk, he can raise his eyes to the right and look up into the florid features of Salmon P. Chase. He may take some com fort from doing so, for he and Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury have much in common. Chase, too, was not a financier by training. His chief interest in life was abolition and he had the difficult job of financing the war to end slavery. The Dictionary of American Biography says of Mr. Chase...
...have a species of salmon which "take" a dry fly. Mr. Grey is an annual guest. He "takes" the fish...