Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Bellingham, Wash, from its maiden voyage last week chugged a sturdy 140-ft. trawler with a new kind of catch. In the Deep Sea's hold, frozen and packaged, were 150,000 pounds of king crab, the first to be caught commercially by any U.S. fishermen. As a result of the Deep Sea's venture, the U.S. fishing industry may be able to take over a onetime Japanese monopoly...
After the war, Russian fishermen prepared to take over where the Japs left off. They were snagged by a presidential proclamation forbidding foreigners to fish in the territorial waters of the Bering Sea off Alaska, best king-crabbing grounds...
...Faithful. Mrs. Dewey, recovering from a violent case of poison oak she had picked up in her home town of Sapulpa, Okla., seemed to be showing some strain. They had their picture taken beside the Jet Geyser, were disappointed by the poor catches being made by stream fishermen, but cheered up when they saw a bear amble out of a stand of dead spruce. Everybody stayed in the bus. The Governor had been warned that the bears were vicious...
Eventually fishermen, vacationers, carabinieri from the village of Albenga and the three crewmen brought in 44 small corpses and three of the women. On a long, banquet-sized table covered with a white cloth in the White Cross aid station, the 44 children were laid in a neat row, side by side. Each child's hands were carefully clasped on his breast, each tiny fist held a flower. When the parents and relatives arrived from Milan, one Italian reporter wrote, the grisly hall became "a wild whirlpool of grief and insanity...
This year the fame of Pend Oreille's Kamloops has attracted fishermen from hundreds of miles away. Some have gone home with empty creels, for the Kamloops are as temperamental biters as any trout. But by last week more than 200 fierce, square-tailed Kamloops, averaging 22 lbs., had been hauled out of Pend Oreille, including a 28-pounder (see cut) reeled in by a 13-year-old Idaho boy, Pat Kauffman...