Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble started early last month. Cartoonist J. N. ("Ding") Darling (an ex-Government Wildlife man) found the beach near his Captiva home strewn with dead fish. More were floating offshore, belly-up, and the water was heavily laced with sickly yellow-green streaks...
...same story. A fishing boat with a well built into its hull to keep its catch alive steered into one of the streaks. As soon as the yellow-green water got into the well, the captive fish swam to the surface, gulping air. Then they were as dead as their uncaught fellows outside...
...could describe exactly how the swarming organisms kill sea life. Perhaps they actually poison the fish; perhaps they suffocate fish by blocking their gills. But there is no quick remedy. This week dead fish, but fewer of them, were still coming ashore. The only thing Florida chambers of commerce could do was hope that the next cold snap would clear the sea of yellow-green streaks...
...more than three years. His other son, the idealistic Chris, has come home, swallowed his father's protestations of innocence, and arranged to marry his missing brother's fiancee. But Chris's mother will not hear of it; she will not admit that Larry is dead. It becomes clear that she cannot admit it without recognizing the enormity (she has long known the truth) of her husband's misdeed. Eventually Chris, too, faces the truth. The old man, after agreeing to confess and go to prison, shoots himself...
Skeptical (but hopeful) veterans wondered whether they would like living in an, enamel house. Other prefabricators, who have fallen way behind schedule, were dead sure that for a long time few veterans would have a chance to find...