Word: tarpon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wall of Chicago Stock Exchange President James Day's office hangs a two-inch perch mounted on a tarpon-sized plank, the gift of friends lampooning a luckless fishing trip. But last week ardent Fisherman Day landed a tarpon of sorts. After three years of angling, he hooked it with representatives of the Cleveland, St. Louis and Minneapolis-St. Paul Stock Exchanges. They agreed to merge their exchanges into one big Midwest Stock Exchange, which will be exceeded in size only by the New York Stock Exchange and the Curb Exchange...
...sensitive boy who mourns for the tarpon he has caught, and tries to coax it back to life...
...Petersburg, the tarpon boats lay idle at their piers. Down the coast at Sarasota, merchants glumly watched the summer vacationists pack their bags and leave. The beach hot-dog stands were deserted at Indian Rocks and Pass-a-Grille; many beach cottages were empty. Under the hot summer sun, the stench of rotting fish seeped into houses, clung to clothes. The strange phenomenon which Floridians called the "Red Tide" had come back to the Gulf Coast...
Despite his complex deals, Murchison is no round-the-clock grind. In his 20-room mansion near Dallas, he likes to give big parties in a bar whose walls are sheathed in gleaming tarpon scales. Murchison takes off his tie, rolls up his sleeves, and invites his guests to do likewise. He keeps a six-seater converted C-47 (complete with bar, three couches and card table) to whisk him back & forth from his 120,000-acre Mexican ranch, where he goes to hunt and fish. And his way of announcing his arrival at home is to bellow...
Some of the world's best saltwater fishing is to be had in the warm waters off Florida's coast. Shrewd hands usually wait until late spring, when the big runs of bluefin tuna, tarpon, blue & white marlin begin. But for the professional small-boat skipper the best fishing time is now-when the tourists are running...