Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page 2, col. 2, I want to request you not to make corrections of statements and facts with which you are not personally acquainted; and also wish to inform you that they who have described the Finnish cities to you are actually liars, and stupid, as there are no fish-canning industries located in the cities, least of all in Helsingfors, which city is widely known and visited by tourists, and named "Paris of the North...
FREE! 50,000 fish forks. (P.40...
...particular talent is a blunt, wholehearted affability which endears him to all members of a profession in which this gift is the norm of social intercourse. "Handling men," he has said, "is largely a matter of getting them to like you." Charles Markham has said the same thing; Stuyvesant Fish said it too in the days when he was president of the Illinois Central. Presidents Fish, Markham, Downs-successively they built their lives into a railroad...
...undertaking flourished from the first. The river boats offered little competition and had pretty well disappeared by the time Edward H. Harriman was looking for a Chicago entrance for his Union Pacific trunk line from Council Bluffs. He had bought his way into the Illinois Central which Stuyvesant Fish controlled. Now Mr. Fish was a gentleman who tempered empire building with elegance; he did not believe that a person of quality need handle a railroad less gracefully than he would a cravat. His cigars, acumen, and the atmosphere of success and imported cologne that enveloped his person charmed...
Then a commotion on the sea's bright surface caught his eye. Slowly, with cautious curiosity, he circled up that way. It was something ruddy, swimming right on top. That it was no fish could be told from the ribbons and puffs of silver bubbles it made beneath it. It was one of those forked animals from the land, a man. On board the U. S. S. Maryland, gobs spied the shark, saw him swing over to inspect, and follow at no great distance, their buddy, John Radowich of the Pacific battle fleet, who was trying to swim...