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This was not an isolated incident. It followed reports of other Korean uprisings-power plants dynamited, warehouses, mills, bridges, ammunition supplies, fishing boats and tankers destroyed or damaged, police stations overwhelmed, Japanese houses burned. The rumble of some of these doings reached the Chinese mainland. The Japs explained that it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Pangs of Empire | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Up & down both coasts last week some 125,000 weather-worn fishermen bemoaned a wartime paradox: despite high prices and the biggest demand ever, many a fisherman loafs at home while many a home goes without fish. Chief reason: more than 400 of the biggest and most efficient fishing boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Fishing Troubles | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

New England has been hardest hit. At least three Boston fishing boats have been sunk; the Government has already taken 76 of the largest boats and more are sure to go. There is practically no fishing on George's Bank (200 miles out of Boston) or Sable Island Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Fishing Troubles | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Despite troubles and amateur competition, the big fishing companies have done well. Atlantic Coast Fisheries reported $495,000 profit in the year ended April 30, highest since 1928 and seven times the preceding year. Booth Fisheries earned $429,000, highest ever and almost double the year before. But both companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Fishing Troubles | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

≫ San Antonio's WOAI offered several prizes, one for the best collector's letter. The winning letter came from twelve-year-old William Wheat of Utopia. While fishing for old tires, Utopia's Willie was bitten by a copperhead snake. He wrote: "We didn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cutie & Willie | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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