Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only 15 years ago. Their steelheaders' tackle was homemade -from coffee cans and bicycle baskets. Now they use 15-ox. rods & reels with jewel bearings. Equipment includes cans of "goof" (salmon eggs) for bait, a spool of red thread (to tie walnut-sized gobs of goof on the hook), a whiskey bottle and a "gob rag" - a fetid turkish towel for wiping hands after fixing the bait...
...must cast 100 ft. and more, often laying his goof within a foot of snags. His fingers must be sensitive and quick. A steelhead does not strike: he nudges the line as gently as a minnow. The expert recognizes the split second to jerk his rod and sink the hook. Then the whole river seems to explode...
...Hello. The beginning of the postwar boom found Jimmy making $100 a week with his band at Broadway's Club Nightingale. A waiter named Frank Nolan told him that with a place of his own he could make "a million.'" On his own hook, Nolan rented a 20-by-70 ft. loft above a used-car salesroom on 58th Street, just east of Broadway. There the Club Durant was opened on the cold night of Jan. 22, 1923. Jackson was present. Clayton, a magnificent soft-shoe dancer, who had split with his partner (Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards), popped...
Wrote he: "As a promontory among noses it would have earned the admiration of Slawken-Bergius.*. . . It is indeed a very remarkable nose . . . and one which differentiates itself from other remarkable noses. It has not the tremendous hook of Lord Chatham's; it is not aspiring, like the Younger Pitt's, nor wildly ambitious, like Lady Hester Stanhope's, nor grandly aquiline, like the Iron Duke's; but as one studies it there is a temptation to think that it must be prehensile, like an elephant's trunk...
Then the State Department caught a hook to the head from U.S. importers, notably the Olive Oil Association of America, Inc. From their agents, olive oil importers learned that the entire Mediterranean area-Spain, Portugal, Tunisia-has a record olive oil crop this year. Spain alone could ship to the U.S. three million gallons of olive oil. (Total "normal" U.S. yearly imports: 9,000,000 gal.) To olive oil importers this Spanish offer looked like good business. And since three Spanish merchant ships a month are making scheduled sailings to U.S. ports, and Allied Nations ships returning from the Mediterranean...