Word: trawler
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...three months the Norwegian trawler Sjovik had found good fishing in the Barents Sea. But then, as it was trawling as usual for arctic cod in international waters, the 1,000-ton ship netted a catch that made waves last week in the naval intelligence services of both Norway and the Soviet Union...
After the trawler had been towed backward for about a mile, a periscope shot out of the water just astern of it. Then the submarine surfaced, black and wet, but with no identification marks whatsoever. Skipper Hamnen and his 40 crewmen reckoned that it was a Soviet sub, but tried shouting in Norwegian anyway to the seamen who began appearing on its deck. There was no response. Said Hamnen: "I guess they weren't too eager to talk with us. After all, it's pretty dumb when a modern submarine gets caught up in a fish...
...faded affluence, whose wealth was more attitude than actuality. There was sufficient reality, however, that young Wilson could learn seamanship aboard the family yacht. When the U.S entered World War II, he won a quick commission in the Coast Guard, and served eventually as commanding officer of a converted trawler assigned to the dangerous Greenland patrol. He learned to be a good skipper under the contemptuous eye of a great skipper, and one of his lessons was that he must make do with ability that stopped short of brilliance...
...some restaurateurs contend that shark may become as popular as Mali-Mali, a dolphin dish that has become a prized delicacy in Hawaii and the West. Miami Entrepreneur William Doherty, who has built a $275,000 trawler-factory to fish for shark, calls it "the product of the future." Its fate will depend largely on the success of the strategy that U.S. restaurateurs are using to overcome the stigma of shark: capitalizing on it. At Gatsby's restaurant in Atlanta's American Motor Hotel, for example, Catering Director George Gold promotes his baked mako by putting...
...disclosure that Billionaire Howard Hughes had moved into the top two floors of the area's tallest (seven stories) building, and an eye-opener last year about how Soviet oil drillers were operating off Hither Hills State Park with an oil rig disguised as a fishing trawler. Both the stories sent reporters from national news organizations scrambling to investigate. "I believe the line between reality and fiction is obvious," says Rattiner. "If I fail in making it so, it is my fault. But it certainly gets everyone talking about the paper...