Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after TIME hit the newsstands with the story Williams received a long distance telephone call from the U.S. Navy supervisor of shipbuilding at Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, Ala. The Navy, which no longer needed it, had just the ship for him: a new type LSD (Landing Ship Dock), almost completed, and available to the highest bidder. Williams bid high and got it. The LSD, now being converted, was bigger and better (e.g., it is equipped with the latest and best steam turbines) than the ferry he had ordered, and, Williams figures, puts him eight months ahead of schedule. The deal...
This year, from Stuart to Key West and around the Keys to Shark River on the Gulf, some 300 swivel-seated, outriggered fishing boats, some fresh from Coast Guard duty, are regaining their prewar business. Boat rentals are up from $40 to $60 a day. Most boats carry four fishermen, a captain and mate; the best are comfortable cabin boats. For the opening of the 99-day Metropolitan Miami Fishing Tournament this week, all Miami-berthed boats are duty-bound to parade, with flags flying, down Biscayne...
...sailfish (which are accommodating enough to bite the year round), hires a boat, or joins a party that wants to split expenses. Then, begoggled and suntan oiled, and supplied with rod, reel and heavy 24-thread line that experts would blush at using, he is lugged to Gulf Stream fishing spots. Captain or mate tutors him in the "drop back" sail-fishing technique (i.e., when a fish hits the bait with its bill as if to stun it, the fisherman counts slowly up to ten, then puts his reel in gear and hauls, back to set the hook...
Trainer Lipiec's horses frequently go to the post as long shots (10 to 1 or better) and with surprising regularity pay the kind of money $2 betters dream of. At Gulf stream Park this season he has run 47 horses, won eight races for a profit of $106.20 on a $2 flat...
...that heroes also dislike death, cold, mud, hunger and regimentation; These Are the Russians, Richard E. Lauterbach's joyful discovery that Russians are people; Report on the Russians, William L. White's controversial discovery that Russia is not all it is cracked up to be. Others: Persian Gulf Command, Joel Sayre's readable report on a supply front which has currently become a war front; American Guerrilla in the Philippines, Ira Wolfert; On to Westward, Robert Sherrod; The Vigil of a Nation, Lin Yutang; Wars I Have Seen, Gertrude Stein; Forever China, Robert Payne...