Word: tuna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spine. They called him "horse mackerel and cursed him when, bulking 200 to 800 lb. with the power and speed of a steam engine, he barged into their pound nets and tore them up. Rod & reel fishermen taught the commercial men to call the monster by his right name, tuna. "With their sporting tackle they trolled for his little brothers, up to 90 lb. or so, secretly grateful that no real grown-ups hit the bait...
...wearing only a pair of duck trousers, he went off fishing on the sloop Orca under the guidance of bronzed, taciturn Captain Herman Gray, who used to take President Hoover out sailfishing in Florida. President Roosevelt & party got only some sea bass and porgies, no swordfish, no bluefish. one tuna. Remarked Captain Gray: "Fish don't bite any faster for a President than they do for a plumber." That night the Nourmahal cruised off down the coast to land the President back in Washington day after Labor...
...Portuguese Legation told the U. S. State Department, which told the U. S. Treasury Department, which told the U. S. Coast Guard, which last week told all U. S. fishermen that 60 tuna had been released in Lisbon on June 22, 1932 with metal tags on their tails inscribed "R. P. Aquario, Lisbon, Portugal." To the fisherman who sends in one of the tags with data on where and how the tuna was caught, its size and condition, the Aquarium Vasco da Gama in Lisbon will pay a reward, amount unstated. In previous experiments, Portugal's tagged tuna have...
...Oliver Cromwell Grinnell, prosperous lithographer of Bay Shore, L. I., introduced broadbill fishing to the East, where heretofore the tuna was the largest game fish sought. Month ago his strapping widow hooked a 450-lb. broadbill south of Fire Island at 9 a. m. one day. Ten hours later Mrs. Grinnell was still fighting her fish, her hook fouled firmly in its skull. The captain of her boat, Wally Baker, made her turn over the rod to him. fearing the prolonged struggle would seriously injure her. At 5 a. m. next day he finally managed to gaff the brute...
...plot's the thing, and the plot of "Tiger Shark" is just the theme song of one thousand and one cheap triangle melodramas set to the tuna fish industry. Hence the whole plot is out at the elbows, predictable, and slightly dull. The photography is good, affording many interesting shots of the proper way to catch fish, which are like all educational pictures, much too prolonged. It is enough to say that this movie is amusement...