Word: gantt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After going hungry for five days, male dogs have a striking increase in fertility, Johns Hopkins researchers reported. This jibes with nature's way (seals and walruses do not eat before mating), but conflicts with animal-husbandry practice, which overfeeds beasts at stud. Said Dr. W. Horsley Gantt: "I see no reason to think the principle would not also apply to humans...
...that would tell fishermen everything-where to go for different fish, what kind of tackle to take, what time to fish, where to hire boats? Before long the mapmaking became so complicated that the situation was out of hand. Smith and Rathbun hired a professional cartographer, John F. Gantt Jr. "Instead of paying him," says Rathbun, "we asked him to become a partner and share our losses." The ambitious enterprise became Sportsmen's Guides...
Good Maps. Gantt simply took his partners' carefully collected information and placed it on standard charts of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. In August of 1950, the first map-Annapolis to Point Lookout-rolled off the press. Maryland fishermen bought 5,000 copies within a few weeks. The staff of Sportsmen's Guides continued to collect information, but they ranged farther. Next spring they were ready with The Chesapeake Bay Area, from Conowingo Dam to Annapolis. They they covered The New Jersey Coast, from Sandy Hook to Barnegat Light. Last year they printed their fourth map, The Atlantic...
...project keeps growing, but for the past year and a half Jim Rathbun has had to work alone. Tom Smith was wounded in Korea, Gantt was transferred to St. Louis. Rathbun will probably be sent to Camp Lejeune, N.C. in September. But even though it makes his wife a "map widow," he is going ahead with his charts. The corporation has already blocked out the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Morehead City, N.C. Wind, weather and enemy gunfire notwithstanding, the partners hope some day to cover every fishing area in the U.S. Rathbun still has a minor gripe: charting fish...