Word: swivels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, from Stuart to Key West and around the Keys to Shark River on the Gulf, some 300 swivel-seated, outriggered fishing boats, some fresh from Coast Guard duty, are regaining their prewar business. Boat rentals are up from $40 to $60 a day. Most boats carry four fishermen, a captain and mate; the best are comfortable cabin boats. For the opening of the 99-day Metropolitan Miami Fishing Tournament this week, all Miami-berthed boats are duty-bound to parade, with flags flying, down Biscayne...
...month ago bunchy, belligerent James Caesar Petrillo, president of thg A.F. of L.'s American Federation of Musicians, lolled back in his well-cushioned swivel chair and dictated a letter to the radio networks...
...Swivel-Soldiers...
President Harry Truman was sitting in a cane-backed swivel chair, one elbow resting on the Presidential desk. He wore a double-breasted blue suit with a World War I discharge button in his left lapel...
...center of Navy's line, sent Plebe-Fullback Felix ("Doc") Blanchard bulling through. When the Midshipmen closed up to plug the gap, Army blockers-with Blanchard generally in the van-shook Speedster Glenn Davis loose on the flanks. As they had done all year, Army's swivel-hipped backs went for distance once they got in the clear. Halfback Dale Hall slipped inside tackle and went 24 yards for one touchdown. Davis raced 50 yards around right end for another (his 20th of the season...