Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because Terry Moore and the octopus don't try, or because Gilbert Roland and Robert Wagner aren't brave enough to meet an occasional shark. The film's real weakness is a script scarcely different from Hollywood's previous deep sea epics. Father Roland and son Wagner, Greek sponge fishermen off the Florida keys, discuss the dangers of their occupation and the terror the diver feels when approaching the reef. As Roland wistfully points out, a man can forget his fear when once dazzled by the beauty of the sea, but the reef, lying in wait to grab the unwary...
Beneath the Twelve-Mile Reef (20th Century-Fox) can possibly be explained as an attempt to present the Iliad in modern dress-dungarees, that is. The Greeks of the epic are the sponge fishermen of Tarpon Springs, Fla. The Trojans are the "Conchs," their Anglo-Saxon counterparts in Key West. After newsreeling through a sponge auction and a Greek Orthodox Epiphany, including the inevitable shot of Greek youths diving for a gold cross, the picture at last shows a little fight...
After OPA ceilings went off, prices shot up from $12 to $20 a case in 1947, and to $24 a year later. Packers' costs climbed even faster, about 488% since 1940. Fishermen who got an average of 8½? apiece for their fish in 1940, raked in 50? in 1951. Pay rates in canneries rose nearly 80% an hour...
Meanwhile, canners will try to bargain down the price of raw fish. For this, the FTC price-fixing complaint may be a blessing in disguise. If the Government wins its case, fishermen will have to bargain individually for the price of their fish instead of having the union bargain for the entire fleet...
...powerful fishermen's unions plan a bitter fight to keep raw-fish prices at their current high levels, since a sizable drop would force hundreds of small fishermen out of business. Nevertheless, says the packers' President Sutter, "You just can't go on running a 3,000,000 pack industry with a work force geared to a 6,000,000 pack industry...