Word: cod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Should anyone scent something fishy about this sudden outburst of business optimism in the land of the cod where the Republican party fought its primary on the prohibition issue let him turn to the editorial page of the party journals in Boston. Prohibition is no longer the great question in the Massachusetts elections, these papers announce, and furthermore they caution that to vote a Democratic ticket on the Prohibition issue is to close the door in the face of on-coming good times...
...reasons why the congress will meet here is because on August 31, 1932, there will be a total eclipse of the sun, visible in New England. The path of the totality will start near the Hudson Bay, curve down through New Hampshire and Maine and then go over Cape Cod disappearing a few hundred miles off shore in the Atlantic...
Amateur yachtsmen seldom get excited about races between the fishing schooners of the Grand Banks. They feel that fishermen ignore the finer points of yachting. Furious brawls, after races off Gloucester and Cape Cod, have resulted from the claim that one boat fouled another. The fishermen sail according: to fishing rather than sporting tradition. They crowd sail on their boats at all times, not realizing that under certain conditions a boat carrying less sail will move faster. In one race with the Canadian champion, the U. S. competitor came in first because one of its topsails blew away...
...Thorshavn, chief Faroe village, Poul Petubson, Faroe delegate to the Danish Parliament, called an indignation meeting. Later a crowd of inflamed cod fishermen with Delegate Petubson at their head swept through the streets to the Lagting (local parliament) building, brushed aside Thorshavn's lone policeman, hauled down the Danish flag, a white cross on a red field, and hoisted the Faroes' banner?a blue-trimmed red cross on a white field...
Officials were incensed. Down came the Faroe flag, up went the Danish. Out came Delegate Petubson again, and while cod fishers cheered, up went the Faroe flag once more...