Word: whalers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giants and observed that although some of the natives were obviously Polynesian, others had white skins and red hair. He also let his men shoot down a few indigenes after a minor misunderstanding. Subsequent Western visitors apparently felt free to kill any native on whim. In 1811, an American whaler added a touch of Yankee ingenuity. Some island girls were lured aboard. After the crew had made a night of it, the girls were forced to swim for shore while the mate took potshots at their bare backs...
...bills to the amount of $500,000. Following orders, he dropped it into Biscayne Bay on Thursday morning, just offshore from a stretch of overgrown lots south of downtown Miami. A local resident, wakened at 5 a.m. by the sound of an approaching outboard, saw a white Boston Whaler being beached on a neighbor's lawn and, because of a recent rash of burglaries, phoned the police. Because the FBI had not bothered to notify the police of the ransom dropoff, two officers responded to the call. They spotted what appeared to be two men, one carrying a duffle...
...police and FBI now had an important clue. A blue Volvo parked near by-and containing scuba gear-was found to be registered to one George D. Deacon, 28, a research technician at the Institute of Marine Science across the bay. It was from the Institute that the Boston Whaler had been stolen earlier that night...
...musical doubting and questioning does not mean that Ruggles lacks a ready supply of answers when he sits chatting with visitors in the living room or over the cracker barrel at the country store. Salty and profane as a whaler captain, he has a mean word for everybody. Composer Deems Taylor? "What a punk!" His Mississippi steamboat-captain grandfather, Charles Henry Ruggles? "A terrible old tyrant-he had to be captain of the ship all the time." His father Nathaniel? 'Drunk all the time." His boyhood hero, Actor Richard Mansfield? "A fine actor but a mean bastard," To this...
...Straus family, which has run the firm founded by Rowland Hussey Macy, a onetime Yankee whaler, since 1888, bought it out in 1896 and still has effective control with only 5% of the company's stock...