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...catch is valued at about $113,000,000. Chief fish landed in New England ports is not the famed cod but haddock, one month's catch showing 75% haddock, 16% cod, 5% flounders. The oldtime fishing dory is also outmoded in large scale fishing. Large beam trawlers drag the sea floor with nets, haul up masses of fish in which the smaller fish are often squashed and suffocated. Atlantic Coast Fisheries trawlers have a capacity of 200,000 pounds of fish per trip. They keep in touch with home ports by wireless; bring in as much fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Suspended Animation | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...liquor on their breaths, carnival girls on their laps. A cooch dancer came out and began her undulations. Through her Oriental veil, Bobbie Spencer recognized Helen, the blonde witch whom he loved and had persuaded that very afternoon to quit the show business. Maddened, sickish, he tried to drag her away. Showman Blackie intervened. When Bobbie lunged at him, Blackie drew a gun and fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...years ago for her two sons, then 13 and 9. The attorneys summed up and the prosecutor said: "It may be true that to the pure all things are pure, and that we have to go down to the gutter for our information, but this woman is trying to drag us down into the sewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Sex Side of Life | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...different in men and women, what each part is for and how it works." She described the male and female genital apparatus in main detail, with illustrations by Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, gynecologist and eugenist. She told of ovulation. She described insemination. She wrote: "Don't let any one drag you into nasty talk or thought about sex. It is not a nasty subject." She mentioned the two terrible sexual diseases. She concluded with: "The physical side of love is the intensely intimate part of it, and the most critical for happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Sex Side of Life | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...reintroducing old American sporting customs, a ride to hounds, a balloon ascension, and a drag-chase to Boston Common are the promised triple threat of the Lampoon members for this afternoon, it was stated last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TALLY-HO" IS REFORM CRY RISING FROM LAMPY'S DOOR | 5/1/1929 | See Source »

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