Word: baits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film begins as the clipper sets out to sea. First off, the crew must "scoop" for "chum," i.e., make a haul for anchovetas, to be used for bait. When at last the net makes a full purse, the ship heads for fishing grounds. A few days later, the porpoise shoal and the water birds fluster wildly overhead-the signs of tuna below...
...days on end, the tough little clipper rides the fierce chubasco, as lightning sprouts like trees on the horizon, and the towering waves break over her stout prow. Then south to the Galapagos, "the ash heap of the world." Off these volcanic isles another scoop is made for bait. On the ledges of the overhanging rocks, the huge iguana rustle, and at night a volcano spews its fairy fires. Day after day no fish, and days become weeks. The ship sets course for Peru, and there, after 13 weeks at sea, the big latch is made at last...
...edge of a slash-pine grove. Or a 15-lb. turkey gobbler hurtling into a charge of No. 6 shot, and then falling through the Spanish moss on the oaks onto the dry palmettos below. Or the catfish, at his grandfather Brandon's farm, that stole his bait, sneaking off to its lair. Or how hot it was picking corn in the August...
...another doubt that turned around Adenauer's failure to get any definite commitment on the reunification of his country. But the possibilities there were strictly limited. The Russians could have agreed to reunification, provided that the Germans agreed to get out of NATO. This was the hidden bait in the Kremlin's invitation to Adenauer. The Russians knew how powerful in German public opinion is the drive to reunite their country. Any German political leader less staunch than Der Alte might have been pressured into it. But Adenauer's loyalty to the Western alliance is so crystal...
However costly the bait, the industrial fishermen think that the catch is worth it. New payrolls broaden the tax base, raise per capita income and, in turn, attract more industry to diversify and stabilize employment. For example, in Los Angeles County, 1,576 highly diversified plants (total investment: $500 million) have opened their doors since 1945. As a result, Los Angeles has easily been able to weather such economic setbacks as the citrus slump and the sharp postwar cutbacks in the aircraft industry. In ten years, the Cleveland area has brought in more than 200,000 new jobs...