Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overhead, a mile-long flotilla of fishing boats, five abreast, paraded out of Biscayne Bay. It was the opening of the 99-day Metropolitan Miami Fishing Tournament and 2,000 deep-sea anglers, who for weeks had been dreaming of sailfish dancing on their tails, were off for the Gulf Stream four miles away to try their luck, skill, and endurance...
Open not only to Gulf Stream fishermen but to anyone who catches one of the 30 specified varieties of fish† with rod & reel within the tournament's fixed boundaries-from boat, pier, bridge, bulkhead or breakwater-the Miami tournament, started three years ago, is the largest in the U. S. Last year 102,000 contestants entered their catches. A barefoot boy with a 10? rod, a trailer tourist who goes out on a $2-a-day party boat and an elegant sportsman with a $100 rod and a $1,000 reel have each an equal chance...
...convict, woman and baby are rescued, get mixed up with Chinese muskrat hunters from the Louisiana swamps, are turned loose, drift to the house of a kind-hearted French-speaking Cajun alligator hunter, somewhere near the Gulf. When the convict sees his first alligator, and understands that it is to be killed, he thinks, "Well, maybe a mule standing in a lot looks big to a man that never walked up to one with a halter before." With that he jumps overboard, catches the alligator around the neck, stabs it. The convict becomes a local hero...
Most impressive and significant event of the week was the light plane cavalcade of some 550 Pipers, Taylor Cubs, Aeroncas, mobilized by Major Al Williams and his flying staff of the Gulf Oil Corp.'s aviation department. On the opening day 325 of these little fellows flew into Miami on free gas and oil from the East, the Middle West and the Southwest, settling like flocks of gulls on Florida's sands. By the meet's end most of the stragglers had joined the first 325. Of the rest, forced down en route by weather, low fuel...
Joan Crawford (Sun. 7:30 p. m. CBS), Jack Benny, Judy Garland, Reginald Gardiner, Ralph Morgan, Mitchell Leisen, Morrie Ryskind contribute their services to the first program of Gulf Oil Corp.'s series of Screen Actors' Guild benefits...