Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cruiser, carrying an Embassy secretary and the U. S. military attaché. They delivered a letter from Ambassador Welles advising Secretary Swanson not to come ashore, lest his presence stir angry demonstrations. The Cabinet officer stayed meekly on the cruiser. Two hours later the Indianapolis pulled up her hook, steamed off for Panama and the Pacific carrying the aged Secretary of the Navy definitely out of the Cuban picture...
...York City was only sideswiped by the storm as it pounded northwest across the State. The Sandy Hook light was blown out and the Statue of Liberty went dark when lightning struck its power plant. So rough was the sea of Ambrose Channel that harbor pilots were unable to board incoming liners. Into Brooklyn was blown a baby Louisiana heron, with one wing broken. The storm gave the city a six-month supply of water in its mammoth reservoirs...
...Oliver Cromwell Grinnell, prosperous lithographer of Bay Shore, L. I., introduced broadbill fishing to the East, where heretofore the tuna was the largest game fish sought. Month ago his strapping widow hooked a 450-lb. broadbill south of Fire Island at 9 a. m. one day. Ten hours later Mrs. Grinnell was still fighting her fish, her hook fouled firmly in its skull. The captain of her boat, Wally Baker, made her turn over the rod to him. fearing the prolonged struggle would seriously injure her. At 5 a. m. next day he finally managed to gaff the brute...
...reel the size of a coffee tin, some 1,200 ft. of No. 36 thread line, 15 ft. of copper leader. Shoulder-straps and a socketed belt are provided to let the fisherman put his back into his fight with the fish. A fresh squid is sewed onto the hook and sometimes a wooden lure is trolled ahead of it to rouse the broadbill's interest. To take the line out of the wake of the boat a kite is often rigged to it and flown off the quarter. The fish are sighted when their fins and tails clip...
...When her money dwindled, she had to hunt a job. She got one as reporter on a Boston tabloid, the Daily Record. Gal Reporter tells, in ochreous tabloid style, some of her assignments. For tabloid readers who think highly enough of their favorite reading matter to buy it in hook form, Gal Reporter should do nicely. More intelligent readers may enjoy it for other reasons. By special permission from Washington she was allowed to make a trip with the Coast Guard Cutter Mojave. She admits the crew were glad to see her go. As the Mojave steamed...