Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...park. At the tiny (pop. 600) fishing town of Everglades City, he was welcomed by an enthusiastic, pushing crowd of 4,500. A group of Seminole Indians presented him with a rainbow-colored shirt, and a buckskin bag to take to Bess. He stopped to chat with some sponge fishermen, got two sponges as souvenirs...
...busier than they have been since the days of wooden ships and iron men. Now, as 70 years ago, saws screech through oaken timbers and pine planking; middle-aged craftsmen, wielding adzes, cut keels so that they look as though they had been planed. U.S. yachtsmen and game fishermen set off the boom. They had discovered that Nova Scotians could still build stout, trim sailing craft, besides modern power boats-and build them cheap...
...Built in 1921, the Bluenose (143 ft. overall) won all five of the International Fishermen's Races. Diverted to inter-island cargo trade, she was lost on a West Indies reef in January...
Fish Story. Off Santa Monica, Calif., Fishermen Woodrow Wakatsuki and Katsumi Nishitawa had a wonderful catch-they kept hauling in the mackerel till the weight of the fish sank the boat...
Some northern California fishermen have already gone south to San Pedro, where the catch last season was bigger than usual. Many more were prompted to follow by reports this week from San Pedro, where the first day's catch was the second highest on record. But the canners of northern California, with some $60,000,000 tied up in factory equipment, are much worse off. A few have turned to vegetable canning. But most of them are just waiting despondently for an end to nature's perverse magic...