Word: sharks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Briefly, the Dewey record goes like this. He struck from the first at the loan shark racket, and by convicting twenty-one usurers put a million-dollar a week business out of commission. Then, in rapid time, the system of organized vice controlled by 'Lucky' Luciano felt the knife, and after extraditing Luciano from Hot Springs, Arkansas, where that worthy went to hide out, Dewey convicted him for a prison stretch of thirty-five to fifty years. Then the restaurant trade, which had been victimized by a series of fake labor unions and "protective associations" to the tune of millions...
...riding thunderheads at a Soaring Society meet. To sailplane pilots it represents the most fascinating pinnacle of their sport. To most spectators it is as though an aquaplanist were to get bored with skimming the waves on his aquaplane and take a ride on the back of a healthy shark. That Pilot du Pont, 27-year-old scion of the Wilmington family, has plenty of nerve he showed three years ago when, finding good conditions aloft, he set out for New York City without parachute or compass, set the U. S. distance record of 155 miles...
However, I have always imagined a contest with a shark as not so much a tug of war, as a free-for-all catch-as-catch-can, with no holds barred. And while we humans may have the ability to outpull a shark, the soft, creamy foods we eat have resulted in our being somewhat less than a match for him, dentally...
...heard all about how you subdue such tough customers as lions, alligators, rattlesnakes and such-you pull their jaws apart till they snap, or holding them by the tail, you crack them like a whip and their head flies off. But what to do when suddenly confronted by a shark, or barracuda ? Should one set up a tremendous splashing and threshing about, and thus attempt to frighten him off, or should one lie log-still, in the hope that he will merely sniff and go on about his business? One of such opposite courses must be considerably healthier than...
Says Sharksman Wise in Tigers of the Sea: "Do sharks attack and kill men? . . . It is my opinion that a shark, except when surprised, attacked or greatly excited, rarely attacks a man whom he does not believe to be dead or helpless. . . . The discussion of all this with experienced fishermen in Nassau led naturally to the old question of what a man should do if he found himself in the water with sharks nearby. All of us agreed that he should kick, splash, yell, and raise all possible commotion but none of us would wish to be held responsible...