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...familiar to fiction readers and cinemaddicts. But songs of flying, unlike cowboys' and sailors' songs, have never been collected in print. In the May-June issue of Sportsman Pilot, out last week, appeared the beginning of an anthology of flying songs. First contributions came from John C. Haddock, Pennsylvania mining engineer and sportsman pilot. Pilot Haddock recalled a chantey by which student aviators in the Navy were taught the rudiments of safe flying, each verse pointing a moral. Excerpts...
Largest employer of labor in Gloucester. Mass, is Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co., Ltd. Its plants, stretching along Gloucester's busy waterfront, turn out such fishy products as ready-to-fry codfish cakes, ready-to-use codfish, clam chowder, haddock chowder, flaked fish, haddock fillet, cod liver oil, fish meal...
Like all food companies, Gorton-Pew faces lower selling prices. Tinker mackerel, haddock, cod and other piscine products sell at about half what they did two years ago. But like other food companies Gorton-Pew's faith is buttressed by the knowledge that people must eat. And in many a U. S. home the codfish ball is still a Friday night and Sunday morning institution. The better to send forth cod to hungry consumers, last week Gorton-Pew opened a new plant which can turn out 48,000 10-oz. cans of ready-to-fry codfish cakes...
...codfish-eating community. Before and since, this has been far from the case. Prime clown of early Newburyport "Lord" Timothy Dexter. He sent coals to Newcastle, warming pans to the In made a fortune. He lived in a mansion bristling with minarets and wo statues. He drank constantly, crown haddock-hawker his private poet laureate with a wreath of parsley, spelled v than Chaucer, published oftener...
...Atlantic Ocean last week thrust another puzzle at seafaring man. Over the Georges Banks, where haddock, cod and mackerel run and the seabottom is in many spots but 12 ft. deep, a whirlpool appeared. Whirlpools, whether in the ocean like the anciently famed & feared Maelstrom west of Norway, or in rivers as below Niagara Falls, so far as man has ever known swirl towards a centre...