Word: trawler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no doubt that domineering, salt-crusted Patrick J. McHugh had tight control over Massachusetts' fishing fleet. The 4,200 members of his independent Atlantic Fishermen's Union manned practically every sizeable trawler, dragger and gill-netter that sailed out of New Bedford, Gloucester and Boston. The union had its own selling rooms in Gloucester and New-Bedford, and dictated who could and who could not buy there...
Into Bellingham, Wash, from its maiden voyage last week chugged a sturdy 140-ft. trawler with a new kind of catch. In the Deep Sea's hold, frozen and packaged, were 150,000 pounds of king crab, the first to be caught commercially by any U.S. fishermen. As a result of the Deep Sea's venture, the U.S. fishing industry may be able to take over a onetime Japanese monopoly...
Lucie's husband ("descended from the corsair just as you descend a long staircase when you slip-on his backside") died years ago. And Luc La Hourie, her only son, was reported lost at sea with a Breton fishing trawler just three months after he married Françoise...
...anticlimax. According to the communiqué finally issued last week by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: 80% of little Marcus Island's military installations, seven twin-motored Jap bombers, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps, shops and living quarters were destroyed; an enemy trawler was sunk. After pounding the 740-acre island for nine hours from the air, losing two fighters and one torpedo plane, the U.S. task force, commanded by air-minded Rear Admiral Charles Alan ("Baldy") Pownall, retired...
Lieut. Peter Markham Scott, Britain's No. 1 bird painter, son of the late great Antarctic Explorer Robert Scott, commanded light naval forces which left an armed enemy trawler ablaze after an encounter off Le Havre...