Word: tuna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four (open-end): Massachusetts Investors Trust, $362 million; Investors Mutual $235 million; Keystone, $222 million; Wellington tuna, $154 million...
...U.S.S. Magpie worked in the California fishing fleet as a dragger or purse seiner, and she was known as the City of San Pedro. In 1936 the Navy bought her and 20 sister boats, gave them each a 3-in. gun, gear to catch something more deadly than tuna, and names from the birds, such as Bunting, Crossbill, Crow, Puffin and Heath Hen. They all had wooden hulls, so thin that a dummy torpedo dropped in practice from a plane once sank one. Still, the Magpie and her sisters, not without casualties, served in World War II, sweeping up enemy...
...equipment consisted of a 20-year-old oak rod, an 18-year-old reel and a 36-thread linen line-the same slender line the experts used in the tuna-fishing tournaments. He caught his own bait, a small mackerel. Then he hired 65-year-old veteran Guide Percy MacRitchie to row him out to the tuna grounds in an 18-ft. dory. The sea was calm-until the big fish struck. Hodgson struck back, hooking the fish with all the weight of his solid (190 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) frame. The battle began...
...hour and 20 minutes Hodgson played the giant fish while Guide Mac-Ritchie tried to row the boat toward shore. The tuna pulled the boat twelve miles around St. Ann Bay before it was finally played out and beached itself. During the struggle, the 9-ft.-9-in. fish bent the 3-in., U-shaped steel hook into an L. But the hook held...
...held a record-breaking 977-pounder, heaviest tuna ever taken on a rod & reel (old record: 927 Ibs.). Commander Hodgson, 49, a fisherman in the best tradition, claimed he had seen an even bigger one that day. Said he: "It just wouldn't bite...