Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny San Pedro, one of the U.S. fish capitals, the harbor was hectic with production. The white-hulled tuna clipper Long Island warped in with the season's first catch of bluefin tuna-a whopping 90 tons, worth about $20,000. Grizzled fishermen, speeding their net mending, talked about the biggest tuna run ever, wondered if prices would go above the present...
...sailed to get his share was short, swarthy Captain Andrew Vilicich, master of the sleek, 77-ft. Gallant. Like most West Coast fishermen, Captain Vilicich is a year-round worker, goes after tuna from April to July, sardines from August to March. On his boat he took in $112,000 last year. His crew collected $61,000; he got all the rest. This kind of money has made Fisherman Vilicich the next thing to an economic royalist: he owns his ship (value: $30,000), a share in a San Francisco sardine plant, a comfortable, two-story house, sends...
...fishing industry was making money galore. But the 125,000 U.S. fishermen had something else that was new-prestige. For the first time since Plymouth Rock, the fisherman was absolutely vital to the nation's food supply, as needed and respected as the rancher, the farmer...
Before the war, antiquated river steamers puffed through the heart of Paris along the silent river Seine. On a lovely spring morning those who sat on deck beheld history unfold before their eyes. Between floating laundry barges, tall poplars, lines of motionless fishermen, they passed within a stone's throw of Daumier's house on the Ile St. Louis. Gliding under the great city's bridges, they threaded their way through the formal shadow of the Louvre, crept by the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, skirted the soft Bois de Boulogne, finally relinquished the monuments...
...great bridge which opened and shut with a clanging roar as if to snap up the boats which passed below. Near by were the big ships, for there the water is deepest. Behind lay the little fishing boats with their many-colored sails being stitched up by the fishermen; above, burning in the sun, the golden image of Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde opened her arms to the returning sailors...