Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a man who will not try Tom Gifford's theories. One of them is that trolling is not the best way to get sailfish; more can be caught using live bait while anchored or drifting along the rim of the coral reefs that edge the Gulf Stream. Snorts Captain Gifford: "The charter thinks he has to troll when he goes big-game fishing, and he gets mad as hell when you stop and anchor. A lot of them say: 'Whatcha doing? You going to bottom fish? I didn't come out here to catch grouper...
...that the U.S. has contracted to pay steep royalties to Freeport Sulphur Co. for the ore that the plant uses, is even now battling to renegotiate the contract and slash the royalties. Few companies are willing to bid on the plant until peace is declared and a steady stream of ore is guaranteed at a good price...
...Louis and Minneapolis, Chairman William McChesney Martin and his governors gave permission to drop the rediscount another ½% (to 1¾%) on loans to member banks, and sliced bank reserve requirements. Thus the FRB released a potential of $2.7 billion in new credit into the nation's money stream...
...talk was like a stream, which runs...
...informer-terrible things to be. Unlike O'Flaherty's "Gypo," who betrays out of weakness, Roth's O'Neill acts from moral strength and does it on a tide of tea. (In fact, as Roth tells it, all Ireland is washed by a Gulf Stream of tannin. Births, deaths, love, wakes and warfare swim in the element...