Word: rods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yellow Market. Cleveland hotels were taking reservations for the World Series. Denverites could talk of nothing except the Denver Bears, who had won 23 of their last 29 games. Fresh-water fishermen were experimenting with a new casting rod, a 22-inch contrivance of spring steel called a "stubcaster." Beaches were jammed everywhere-even near New York, where health authorities made grave tests for dangerous germs from open sewers. Oklahoma Citians tried something new in outdoor entertainment -square dances held on the concrete apron outside the municipal auditorium...
Carried Away. At Brooklyn's Coney Island, Fisherman William Lapicki heaved a manful cast off Steeplechase Pier, followed his rod & reel into the Atlantic...
...automatic rod for very relaxed fishermen (designed by Anthony Moliskey of San Pedro, Calif.). When a fish bites, the fisherman touches a button. A compressed air cylinder raises the rod, flips the fish toward the frying...
...just right. Oldtimer Art Wood, a guide from Sun Valley, grinned as he stalked through some willows to his pet spot. After a few expert casts (his friends say that he can put his fly into a sugar bowl at 30 paces), there was a resounding splash and his rod bent double. He played the fighting rainbow and pulled out a three-pounder-middling by Silver Creek standards. Then he caught eight more. Up & downstream from him, oblivious to buzzing mosquitoes, were ardent anglers who had camped there all night, so that they could start fishing...
...Gorcey, side-of-the-mouth "Dead End Kid" of stage & screen, had gat trouble with his estranged wife Evalene. One dark night at home in suburban Los Angeles, he heard people coming in without asking, so he grabbed his rod quick and blazed away. It was just Evalene and a couple of detectives having a little peek. Nobody got hit, but Leo got arrested on a gun charge and faced trial this week...