Word: cod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general manager, Boss Brown drafted tall, jut-jawed Chester Bowles, 42, head of Manhattan's potent advertising firm of Benton & Bowles, Connecticut manager of OPA. Yaleman Bowles was sailing off Cape Cod when his appointment was announced, had to be hunted down and called ashore by the Coast Guard. His experience with the OPA in Connecticut had taught him just how much the public will stand, he said: he would try to do his best...
...Like cod into a seine, some 20,000 panting citizens swarm every evening into a converted cyclodrome at Boston's Revere Beach. They are not bothered by the OPA ban on pleasure driving: Revere can be reached by Boston's elevated system, streetcar lines and a dozen bus routes from North Shore towns. Nor are they bothered by the knowledge that they may go home $10 or $20 poorer. They are hungry dog fans. And the old cyclodrome, now named Wonderland, is a greyhound track...
Massachusetts' florid-faced, iron-grey Charles L Gifford, 72, a Representative from Cape Cod for 22 years, told the House just when a Congressman can be fearless: "It seems Wendell Phillips once said that when a statesman, socalled, arrives at 70 and when he no longer has any hope of being President, you can get the truth...
...where the children waited on tables, the parents cooked, and the daily cash intake disguised their poverty. Counting the money on Sunday night, Louise planned to enlarge the restaurant to support the greenhouse. The greenhouse failed, with liabilities of $72,000. The Piersons bought a soda fountain on Cape Cod, built it into a nightclub. One Saturday night at one minute past 12, it was raided...
...after a winter in captivity. For 40 years they had been fed a diet which included Norwegian shrimp. The war forced substitution of New Orleans shrimp. This spring the long-stemmed birds emerged from winter quarters ruddier than ever. Their complete diet: a mixture of chopped green 'peppers, cod liver oil, fresh New Orleans shrimp, grated raw carrots, dried Mexican flies, dog biscuit, rice and brewer's yeast...