Word: shellfish
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...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...
Generalissimo Weygand had some 500,000 fresh men (27 divisions) in the Maginot Line. When his northern front started crumbling, the time came when he had to abandon the Maginot Line to save at least some of these fortress troops ("shellfish"), at least some of their mountainous supplies of food and ammunition, before they were completely enveloped. If he could get them back to the neighborhood of Dijon they might help to hold a new defense line from the valley of the Loire through the north bastions of France's Massif Central...
...small, tasty shrimps of southeastern Alaska, the herring and shellfish industries are underdeveloped. Yukon mink bring the highest world prices, but could have production expanded 100 times without sinking the world price. Petroleum resources have not even been tapped...
...Santee-Cooper project in court & out. They lost. Traditionalists argued that some of South Carolina's most historic spots would go under water. They were ignored. Naturalists deplored upsetting Nature's balance by making fresh the brackish waters of the Cooper basin, teeming with life from shellfish to wild geese. For so protesting, Archibald Rutledge was censured by the State Senate, but the lower house saved him his honorary title of State Poet Laureate...
...actually getting out the Nutmeg. First issue revealed that the Nutmeg will be highly departmentalized. Columnist Broun will write Nature Notes. Stanley High's Americana starts off as a gossip column. Ursula Parrott's column. This and That, suggests baked grapefruit as a change from soup and shellfish cocktails. John Erskine's regular department will be Men's Furnishings ("The belt question grows acute. . . ."), but for the first issue Mr. Erskine also contributes an editorial on relief and a timely piece on "A Central School for Poundridge." Uncommonly elegant sportswriting comes from sports editor Gene Tunney...