Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said that he feared mutiny or a wave of suicides if the refugees were returned, the St. Louis was followed out to sea by 26 police boats to pick up any other passengers who might fling themselves into the waters. Slowly the ship cruised off the coast of Florida, barely making way, sometimes steaming in aimless circles, until President Laredo Bru relented, 22 days after the St. Louis left Hamburg. He announced that they would be permitted to land temporarily on the Isle of Pines, ancient pirate hideout 50 miles south of Cuba. Next day, the refugees having failed...
...Germans, associates of Japan in the anti-Comintern Pact, but they also protested. While by week's end the Japanese had given no official answer, her Navy spokesman at Shanghai announced that Japan would search for "military supplies" any ship operating within 200 miles of the Chinese coast. The spokesman added: "It is not a question of rights, but of what the Japanese Naval authorities demand...
...come when the Army would have to "take over." General Moseley had started his own investigation of "isms" which called for considerable travel. "If the Jews bump me off," he wrote in a spirit of martyrdom to Captain Campbell, "be sure to see they get credit for it from coast to coast. It will help our cause...
...year a sailfish can be caught in the Gulf Stream off Palm Beach-and frequently anywhere from Palm Beach to Key West where the biggest Atlantic sail ever recorded (119 Ibs.) was caught in 1934. White Marlin (world's record 161 Ibs. ), presumably move up the coast from Miami in the spring, reach New Jersey about the Fourth of July. Blue Marlin are plentiful in the summer (from late June) at Bimini, B. W. I., famed fishing paradise of the Atlantic. There the world's record 636-pounder was boated in 1935. Broadbill, fishing for which is most...
Best tarpon fishing is at Boca Grande (on the West Coast of Florida), Bahia Honda (in the Florida Keys) and Aransas Pass in Texas-where one may expect to catch at least one a day during June. World's record: 242½ Ibs., taken in the Panuco River, Mexico...