Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a few years ago the salmon industry in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska was a booming, $100-million-a-year business. Now it is gasping and dying. Last week salmon fishermen estimated that sales in 1953 will drop to $55 million, and that this year's catch will be the second smallest in 40 years...
Production. The industry can trace its trouble back before World War II, when salmon was king of the market, selling almost 9,000,000 cases v. only about 3,000,000 cases of tuna, the nearest competitor. During the war, the demand, with the Government buying 80% of the catch, was always far ahead of supply. Temporarily sure of their market, the packers forgot about advertising, shrugged off climbing costs, left it up to the brokers who sold the catch to keep up consumer interest in salmon...
...Papa . . . No Uncle Sam." U.S. forces were too weak in body and supplies to launch such an attack. Their two daily meals at dawn and twilight consisted mostly of sticky globs of rice and a few slivers of salmon and beef. In between, they sampled everything from roots and berries to mules and monkeys. Wrote one G.I.: "That monkey meat is all right until the animal's hands turn up on a plate." Beset by dysentery, dengue fever and malaria, badgered by enemy planes and artillery, blocked off from all aid, the men nursed their back-to-the-wall...
...George Washington's Diary records his frequent dealings with the perch and catfish of the Potomac River. Thomas Jefferson, accompanied by his Secretary of State and successor, James Madison, traveled 300 miles by coach to fish for trout in ... Lake George. Chester Arthur knew his way to the salmon pools of New Brunswick. Grover Cleveland, an authority on black bass, wrote one of the most delightful of angling books [Fishing and Hunting Sketches], and perfectly phrased the ultimate test of a true sportsman, "He draweth not his flask in secret...
...settling its Guild strike.) Its rival, Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 184,301) picked up close to 50,000 readers and more ads than it could print, but the Times confidently expects to hold its circulation lead. Striking editorial staffers found temporary jobs, from unloading bananas and canned salmon on the city's docks to doing cleanup jobs for the park department. Said Federal Mediator Barney Toner: "Negotiators from both sides never raised their voices and debated issues as quietly and carefully as two old men playing chess...