Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to coax Oregon's Celilo Indians into abandoning their evil-smelling fishing village, perched on the cliffs above the Columbia River, 95 miles east of Portland. If they would move out, the Government promised, new quarters would be provided across the road, with concrete decks where visiting fishermen could pitch their wigwams, honest-to-Manitou houses for the permanent residents, and inside plumbing...
Davis Bros.' hustling President John F. O'Hara, 36, hopes to cut into the Friday fish market, which he helps to supply, simply because this year he ran into a shortage of mackerel, normally 70% of the fish he cans. Fishermen were pulling in plenty of tuna along the East Coast, but that was not much help: it was the dark, oilier tuna (horse mackerel to fishermen), and could not compete with the West Coast's white tuna...
...Kreutzer has demonstrated his electronic fish-catcher at Hamburg, and has convinced many commercial fishermen that it will revolutionize their business. One practical way to use it would be to draw fish into the path of a towed...
Night, sailing was no better. The Dutch are great ones for fishing instead of earning on honest living, and every evening they get out of bed, yawn, and set out for a night with the nets. We found they were very economical fishermen to boot. When a Dutch fisher man reaches his favorite fish hole, he generally shinnies up the mast and blows out all his riding lights to save kerosene. This means that at any moment the erstwhile yachtsman is prone to destroy the means of a fisherman's livelihood with a sharp blow below the waterline...
...waters off their southern coast, Korean fishermen last week snared a giant sea turtle-5 ft. long, perhaps 1,000 years old. They poured three crocks of wine down its gullet, sent it off to Seoul...