Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centennial has also capped a Canadian culture boom; new museums, libraries and planetariums are going up in such outposts as Salmon Arm, British Columbia, and Hay River in the Northwest Territories. A Confederation Train loaded with exhibits of Canadiana has drawn S.R.O. crowds at every whistlestop. Recently, a chorus of touring Eskimos gave their rendition of 18th century German chorales. Everywhere Canadians seem bent on shattering what Prime Minister Lester Pearson recently described as "the Anglo-Saxon crust, the old grey Canadian tradition...
Commercial fishermen now take about 50 million Ibs. of the plentiful alewives from Lake Michigan each year, for processing into fish meal, fish oil, and cat and chicken food. Worried fed eral and state agents have stocked the lake with 2,000,000 steelhead trout and 300,000 coho salmon, hoping that they will take to an alewife diet and proliferate, thus bringing the ecology of the lake back into balance...
...trout, salmon and fishermen have their jobs cut out for them. Despite the deaths of hundreds of millions of ale wives in the current die-off, there are still an estimated 175 billion in Lake Michigan alone...
SCANDINAVIA has opened its salmon-fishing preserves to the public, and sportsmen can buy rights to fish for rates ranging from $35 to $3,000 a week, depending on the richness of the rivers. A placid but entertaining attraction is the "dollar train" from Stockholm to Lapland, a seven-day, $425 railroad cruise through the magnificence of the fiords and mountain country...
...break loose, like the Chinook salmon jumping and falling backnosing up to the impossible stone and bone-rushing waterfall--raw-jawed, weak-fleshed there stopped...