Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coal needed to fill a new $600 million order from Japanese steel mills. Ideologically impartial, Japanese industrialists trade with Peking and Taiwan, cut timber in Siberia and make 70% of the baseball gloves sold in the U.S. Japanese experts are training rice farmers in India, and fishermen in Ceylon, building drydocks in Singapore and generally doing more than U.S. foreign-aid officials to develop the economies of many Asian nations...
...bridge that is risky by day and perilous at night. The wide macadam road that leads to the Chappaquiddick ferry slip makes a turn to the left; the narrow dirt track that leads to the bridge swings sharply to the right. The bridge itself is used mainly by surf fishermen and leads only to the water...
...interviewed, and by their sensitivity to what they consider the ill-informed criticism that is now aimed their way. He was also impressed with their safety record and with the strange mixture of gruesome, warlike preparation and peaceful pleasures that he found in the areas where they work. "Fishermen drop their lines in the ponds at Pine Bluff Arsenal. At Tooele, the day I was there, thousands of school kids were paying Armed Forces Day visits. There was only one 'incident': a bright teen-ager managed to start up a tank...
More impoitant, Myrberg's studies of the linguistics of fish may help to fill the world's food needs. Once sharks and other predators that normally swim singly or in small groups can be concentrated into selected areas, it may become profitable for commercial fishermen to "harvest" them, thereby tapping a rich new source of protein. Similar tactics might be used to satisfy less adventuresome tastes in seafood. "If we can make this little damselfish twist and turn around in the open sea," says Myrberg, "maybe some day we can make a snapper jump into...
...Fairbanks employment office next morning resembled an army recruiting post during World War I. A ragtag army of bums, miners, Eskimos, fishermen, Athabascans, acidheads, and students had assembled in the building to defend civilization from an enemy that most of them had never seen. Many of the men were simply drifters whose luck had run out in Fairbanks and who wanted to earn enough money for the next month's grubstake. The government clerks passed any high school kid who could lie about his age with a straight face and any drunk who could look sober enough for a three...