Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt shook hands all around, congratulated the crew on the salute of 21 foghorn blasts the Thebaud had paid the Sequoia down the river. The fishermen gave the President a 50-lb. halibut. "Just about enough to feed my family," chuckled Mr. Roosevelt, before cracking the old joke about the young bride who ordered six halibut for dinner. The Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy remembered well how one of the fleet's schooners had been sunk by German submarines...
...volcanic island has risen in the Pacific, reported Captain L. G. Richardson of the British motorship Silverbeech last week. It lies southeast of the main groups of Japanese Islands, is half a mile long, 15 ft. high. Japanese fishermen have already taken possession...
...their reports to discouraged stockholders last week. It has been a poor season. Deauville, Le Touquet, Aix, Biarritz, Vichy and Cannes all reported losses averaging from 25% to 66% of their 1931 income. There was only one bright spot. Fifty years ago when nearby Deauville contained nothing but shrimp fishermen and Norman cider makers, Trouville was a fashionable resort. This year there were in Trouville enough holiday makers who could no longer afford Deauville prices to jack its casino profits from...
Fine game for fishermen, the broadbill swordfish frequently runs afoul of sharks. Two years ago Thomas Montgomery Howell, famed Chicago stock & grain operator, was swordfishing (he has caught four broadbills) off Montauk Point, L. I. with his small son and Captain Bill Fagan when he saw a long-drawn battle between a mako shark and a broadbill. Time after time the swordfish aimed its lethal snout at the shark, but each time the shark was too quick, raked the swordfish's hind end until "the sea looked like shredded wheat." As the dying swordfish was being pulled into Capt...
...Buren, endurance floating champion, went for a swim off Juhu, the Lido of Bombay. India. An off-shore current, too strong to swim against, carried him far to sea. Composing himself. Captain Bauer simply floated about waiting for a shoreward current, was picked up after several hours by fishermen...