Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Distillation Products, Inc. is not worried at present about the future of the fishermen who depend on liver sales. Still, the company points out, the synthetic vitamin will probably benefit millions of people who cannot afford the natural product...
There was no doubt that domineering, salt-crusted Patrick J. McHugh had tight control over Massachusetts' fishing fleet. The 4,200 members of his independent Atlantic Fishermen's Union manned practically every sizeable trawler, dragger and gill-netter that sailed out of New Bedford, Gloucester and Boston. The union had its own selling rooms in Gloucester and New-Bedford, and dictated who could and who could not buy there...
When prices dropped after the war, and with them the fishermen's take-home pay (based on a share in the profits), McHugh ordered each boat to limit its catch, in an effort to bolster the market. Crews that disobeyed were fined, or kept on the beach. The Federal Government refused to interfere, citing the exemption of unions from prosecution for trade monopoly under the Norris-LaGuardia Act. Then the union went a step further, ordered crews to refuse to sell fish for less than the former OPA prices...
...ships gaily hung with bunting. We inquired what was happening and were told that there would be a procession out to sea; so we got into a vessel and went along. As we returned, we saw the people on the piers first jeering, then cheering, and the fishermen broke into a song to the Madonna. I asked a fisherman, 'What's going on now?' and he explained that Fiumicino's new clock had just been inaugurated and that they had had 'a terrible time with the leftists...
Last week from one peak, hidden in rain and fog, fishermen heard an explosion that echoed from cliff to cliff. The Kvitbjoern, bound from Tromso to Oslo, burned for several hours. None of its 27 passengers and eight crewmen survived. It was the worst disaster ever for the Norwegian Airlines (headed by Admiral Byrd's old pilot, Bernt Balchen...