Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already twice blessed by the meat shortage and by exceptionally rich catches (187,000,000 lbs. last year), the Portuguese fishermen of Gloucester (Mass.) and their boats were blessed anew last week. It was a high point in a week's celebration of the 55th anniversary of the Church of Our Lady of Good Voyage...
...bells of the church carillon pealed, 400 swarthy fishermen in their Sunday best, followed by a score of clergy, made their way from the church to the fish pier. Archbishop Richard J. Gushing of Boston, in scarlet, purple and gold vestments, mounted a flag-decked platform facing the 24 draggers tied up together, with pennants fluttering in a stiff breeze. In his stentorian voice, which made the giant loudspeakers superfluous, the Archbishop said...
After the Archbishop's blessing, fishermen and clergy went about the business of consuming 400 pounds of lobster, ten bushels of steamed clams, 1,000 pounds of boiled codfish and corresponding quantities of beer and wine...
Fresh-water fishermen believe in a closed season at spawning time because they want to preserve the fish and because they think that fish bite better if they have an annual vacation. This year five Tennessee Valley states, setting out to disprove the old theory, have abolished a closed season in TVA's vast reservoirs...
With only about one-fourth of the legal-length game fish being taken from TVA lakes each year, Eschmeyer argued that the fishing should be best at a time when fishing was not permitted-during April and May. Last week thousands of fishermen were inclined to agree with him: they were taking advantage of a stretch of balmy Tennessee Valley weather to reel in heavy hauls of crappie and large-and smallmouth bass...