Word: tuna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunshine vitamin, is the only one which the body is known to synthesize. Produced through exposure to sunlight, it is also found in tuna, herring, cod and halibut liver oils...
...this debauch I have swallowed saddle of hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails in aspic and goose livers. In addition I have eaten two dozen oysters and a considerable quantity of fish, ranging from smoked salmon via tuna, sardines and anchovies to an enormous Dover sole. This mountain of food was obtained with out loss of a single food coupon. ... I have watched the great as they dine -Morrison, Beaverbrook, Duff Cooper and Eden among them...
...barrel ($1 a bbl. above 1939), might hit $9. From 1935 to 1938 they had sagged as low as $5.50. Before that (1931-35) they had been unspeakable. Time was (before 1924) when oysters were the No. 1 U. S. cash seafood product. Now topped by salmon and tuna, the industry, which employs some 66,000 workers, harvests an average 16,300,000 bushels of oysters annually...
...Though tuna may migrate without notice, packers cannot. Biggest Northern States packer is Astoria's William Leonard Thompson (no kin to the oceanographer), board chairman of C. R. P. A. But C. R. P. A. was famed for its salmon pack-Bristol Bay's Alaska Red, Columbia River's Fancy Chinook. So when the first albacore came to him in 1937, big, whispering, hard-hitting Bill Thompson, 60, sent them to California for processing and packing. California packers condemned twelve carloads. Roaring "To hell with that-we'll can 'em ourselves," Bill Thompson...
...Oregon finally topped California by a standing offer of $2.50 more than any price California wanted to name. (Apparently chastened, neither side has moved to start a new war this season.) California packers next carried the fight to Washington, asked the Federal Trade Commission for permission to label their tuna extra fancy. Thompson and his friends, new hosts to the albacore, claimed that only their tuna merited such a term. Result: no tuna can now be labeled extra fancy; only albacore can be labeled white meat...