Word: shellfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...community has a standard milk ordinance, the standard was set by P.H.S.; all vaccines used to immunize children against such diseases as smallpox, diphtheria and whooping cough are certified by the P.H.S.; drinking water on trains, ships, planes is certified by the P.H.S.; oysters, clams and other shellfish shipped in interstate commerce must be grown in P.H.S.-certified beds...
Temperate Water. Dr. Newell went to Peru to collect fossils of shellfish that lived and died in the ancient sea. The shells, embedded in the sedimentary rocks, are an accurate key to the age and origin of the strata. He brought back two tons of specimens, grubbed out of Andean rocks by U.S. and Peruvian assistants...
...site of the Andes. It was not a tropical sea, but temperate, since the animals that lived in it are characteristic of cool water. It must have extended without a break right past the equator and into the region of the present Mississippi Valley. In those .days the same shellfish lived in Peru and in Oklahoma...
...Dissension in the colony itself had measurably lessened. So they decreed a special day of thanksgiving that all "might rejoyce together." Four men were sent to shoot waterfowl. Friendly Indians presented five deer, so for three days the Pilgrims gorged "on venison, roast duck, roast goose, clams and other shellfish ... all washed down with wine 'very sweete & stronge.' " Then they settled down to another winter of malnutrition...
...hundreds of bays and inlets along the upper Atlantic Coast this week there was a splash of activity: the oyster season had opened.* Oystermen clambered into their tug-like boats, chug-chugged to the beds, used big dredges to pull bivalves from the bottom, came home gunwales deep with shellfish. To landlubbers everything looked the same. But veteran oystermen knew better...