Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fishermen: "forbear swearing, lest [you] be heard and catch no fish...
Good Marines. Like good marines, Rathbun and Smith did more than gripe; they tried to do something about the situation. Other fishermen must be having the same trouble, they reasoned. Why not draw decent road maps that would tell people how to get to good fishing grounds? For the next few weekends they toured the highways and backwaters of Maryland. They talked to farmers, truck drivers, bartenders, charter-boat operators. Soon they had so much information that they changed their plans: Why not make a map that would tell fishermen everything-where to go for different fish, what kind...
Good Maps. Gantt simply took his partners' carefully collected information and placed it on standard charts of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. In August of 1950, the first map-Annapolis to Point Lookout-rolled off the press. Maryland fishermen bought 5,000 copies within a few weeks. The staff of Sportsmen's Guides continued to collect information, but they ranged farther. Next spring they were ready with The Chesapeake Bay Area, from Conowingo Dam to Annapolis. They they covered The New Jersey Coast, from Sandy Hook to Barnegat Light. Last year they printed their fourth map, The Atlantic...
...What a misfortune!" they said in the street. "And the boat was loaded!"-with a cargo worth more than 500 lire, a vast sum to simple fishermen. The owner of the cargo could sooner have gathered figs from thistles than money from these destitutes; but in loyalty to their code of honor the Malavoglia would not shirk the debt. "We are ruined," said Grandfather 'Ntoni quietly-and began with all his humble means to resist the fact...
...best trout waters will once more be those of the Rockies and Far West. Since many of them will be closed till next month, Western fishermen were able to abide news of the 15-inchers in the East last week only by reflecting on the 15-lb. Kamloops lurking in Idaho's famed Pend Oreille Lake, and the wily rainbows in the streams of Colorado, Montana, Oregon and northern California...