Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roger Tory Peterson's Birds Over America, he says . . . "The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution has issued instructions that no one is to clean up the tower. It is to be left just as it is-a permanent haven for owls...
Three days at sea, the 16,000-ton Polish motorship Batory radioed a routine passenger count back to New York. It ended, ". . . additional, one stowaway, first-class passage paid." As required by law, the Gdynia America Line, operators of the vessel, forwarded the message to U.S. Immigration officials...
...towards the culmination of the annual celebration of this vegetable. The National Pickle Packers Association will hold a convention that will turn the American Legion green with envy. From a line of glorious stars of the screen, the chairman of the group will crown a Pickle Queen. Once more, America will acknowledge the stupendous role the pickle has played in the flowering of the human spirit...
First, he joined a newly formed splinter sect, the "Presbyterian Church of America." In less than a year he broke away, to form his own "Bible Presbyterian Church" (present membership about 8,000). In 1941 he founded the American Council of Christian Churches, which now numbers 18 small sects...
Hidden Cyanide. Following man, coyotes have enormously extended their range, which now reaches from Central America to Alaska. They kill so many sheep that since 1915 the Federal Government has been systematically destroying them, a fact which Author Dobie deplores. Their new enemies are the cyanide-gun devices now used with coyote traps, and a deadly chemical developed during the war, known as Compound 1080. Brilliant as they are, coyotes especially cannot fathom the trap-gun, which shoots cyanide directly into their jaws...