Word: trawlermen
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...these quotas have also upset the irascible fishing community, which claims talk of dwindling stocks is exaggerated. In France, trawlermen have gone on strike to protest rising fuel costs, which have cut further into their profit margins. And at the annual fish quota sessions in Brussels, E.U. governments have shown themselves more responsive to the grumbles of their fishermen than the broader concerns about the state of marine resources...
...however, run afoul of the fact that a bicameral legislature of 535 members has difficulty making up its collective mind, particularly in tricky questions of foreign policy. Individually, too, the legislators are often vulnerable to local pressures-an outcry from Greek constituents agitated about the Turks, or New England trawlermen worried about fishing boundaries off Canada...
Dangerous Game. Last fall Iceland proposed that Britain limit its trawlers to 65,000 tons of cod each year caught within the 200-mile limit. Faced with the idling of as many as 6,500 British trawlermen and fish-industry workers, London countered with a proposed limit of 110,000 tons...
...General Workers' Union-Britain's biggest-met at Southsea, hard by Portsmouth docks. Bevanites hoped to make trouble. When bluff, able Arthur Deakin, 62, the union's general secretary, marched into the hall, packed with 800 representatives of the union's truck drivers and milkmen, trawlermen and stable lads, home helps and gravediggers, someone reminded him that Nelson's flagship Victory, with its hangman's yardarm, was not far away. Deakin smiled grimly. "We don't need the yardarm," said...
...rustled more and more ominously. Scouting planes from both sides of the Maginot-Siegfried stalemate soared over the enemy's interior now in massed squadrons instead of singly. Over the North Sea, Nazi bombers dived with increasing fury and frequency on Allied merchant convoys and British trawlermen. The crew of a Dornier bomber flying inside the Belgian line on the Luxembourg border felt so springlike when three Belgian patrol planes came up to chase them away that they opened fire, sent the Belgian squadron leader crashing to death, forced another down with holes in his gas tank, wounded...
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