Sentence examples for cannery owner from inspiring English sources

Before 1920, many of these dams made no provision for fish passage; public pressure as well as efforts by turn-of-the-century cannery owner R.D. Hume led to the installation of fish ladders on the most destructive dams.

(Although Bumble Bee is the owner, the cannery is still known as the Stinson plant, after the founding family).

When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989, Andrew Wills was a successful herring fisherman in Alaska and the owner of three canneries.

Pointing to a corner of his office, the owner of a struggling cannery says: "See that television set?

Alison O'Hara, owner of True North Kayak Adventures (5 Cannery Row Boardwalk, Homer Spit Road, 907-235-0708) and a guide in Kachemak Bay for 11 years, teaches how to approach the sea otters resting in kelp beds and identifies the seabirds.

A chemical plant, he said, is a riskier proposition than a cannery; joint ventures with local partners are more likely to go wrong than businesses in which the foreign owner has more control; and high-technology companies are less likely to become targets for government takeover than some other businesses because their success depends upon highly skilled managers.

Randy Graves, the owner of Aubergine, moved his business to Sebastopol from nearby Occidental three years ago after falling in love with the historic old cannery.

He identifies strongly with "Cannery Row".

Steinbeck did better with Cannery Row.

"They were congregating around the outfall from a fish cannery.

"That's like working sixty hours in a cannery.