Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transports. To begin with, the big grey baboons streamed out of the forests on to the runway, swinging big sticks to squash up a midday lunch of scorpions. "They got in the path of oncoming planes and left sticks and rubbish on the runways," complained Airport Manager E.G.F. Salmon. "We drove out in jeeps to drive them off and fired shots over their heads. Somehow we couldn't shoot to kill; they were too human...
...MARY SALMON Rosedale, Toronto, Canada...
...hundred more of the marked salmon, averaging ten pounds each, have been caught by fishermen. Dr. Donaldson hopes that in the next few weeks 1% of the nurslings will have been accounted for, a sensational success in the salmon-nursing business. The faithful return of the alumni, says Dr. Donaldson, will start a new era in the study and culture of salmon. Instead of searching out the migrating salmon in rushing, intractable rivers, fish experts can now handle them as docile laboratory subjects...
...concrete pool. After two weeks there, they were sluiced down a flume into Seattle's Lake Union, from where they found their way to the Pacific. Ever since, Dr. Lauren R. Donaldson, director of the laboratory, has wondered whether they would come back. Young salmon had often been successfully transferred from one watershed to another, but none had ever returned to anything as unhomelike as a concrete pool...
Eventually, Dr. Donaldson hopes, man will learn how to raise salmon in "farms" near salt water. When the fingerlings are released, they will reach the sea quickly, dodging the many dangers that await their wild cousins on their journeys down long rivers. When they return from the sea, grown to full salmonhood, they won't have to waste their strength and flesh on battling the rapids. They can swim right into their home farms-and into tin cans...