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Since John Steinbeck thus described it in Cannery Row two years ago, California's famed fishing town of Monterey (130 miles south of San Francisco) has had a surfeit of quiet and magic. By last week, the fishing fleet in the sardine center of the U.S. had dwindled from...
He was 48-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, inheritor of $20 million, avid pursuer of the outdoor life (horses, deep-sea fishing, hunting, aviation). An instructor pilot in World War I, Whitney entered World War II as a major, served ably in Africa, the Pacific and Washington, came out...
Already, henequeneros had heard that the U.S. Government would discontinue its wartime practice of buying their entire exportable surplus. Now from New York came news that Rogers International Corp. had sold the Russian fishing industry 8,000,000 lbs. of war-surplus cordage at 9¼? a Ib.-half the...
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...
¶"Ike" Eisenhower was acting more & more like a presidential candidate. After two days of fishing in Wisconsin's Brule River, he had his picture taken with the biggest fish he had ever caught-a 5½-lb. trout. At the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul, he was...