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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...
...Gorton-Pew calls itself the world's largest fish producing organization although its assets of $2,090,000 are topped by the $6,154,000 assets of Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co. whose main plant is at Groton, Conn. Its Man at the Wheel (portrait of an elderly fisherman guiding a schooner through a heavy sea) is famed among trademarks. And its president is known to the industry as a good man to have at any wheel. He is Thomas James Carroll, 64, whose life has been close to that of Gloucester and its fishermen. His father, an Irish...
...News offered a $100 prize for a word that applied to the News better than "tabloid." Shrewdly, the offer was addressed not to the public but to a list of several hundred national advertisers, of whom 270 submitted suggestions. Some samples described by Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher as "appropriate and nifty...
...chorus sings and there is special cello music. Greenery runs around the choir loft and lilies stand beside the pulpit. A Deacon searches vaguely for a name to fit the face he sees. Old men fumble for a forgotten pew. Tapers gutter in the hasty draft, while a child twists his father's watch chain...