Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long and prayerfully he pondered and last week, with President Roosevelt's imprimatur, at last promulgated his decision: There will, after all, be an open season for shooting wild ducks this autumn...
Spring, though not compelled by statute to do so until the Autumn...
...rivers in such a way as to try to avoid counting the same ducks twice. Against the rough tally thus obtained, the Biological Survey checked later reports from northern breeding grounds, arriving at the figure of 24,000,000 as the number of ducks that will fly south this autumn...
...Sonora Products Corp. of America were sued by the company's receiver, Irving Trust Co.. which charged them with general mismanagement and with diverting $1,500,000 worth of profits from stock sales to their own pockets. A Federal District judge acquitted the defendants, was reversed last autumn by a Circuit Court of Appeals. Last May, on the request of Irving Trust which charged that his "pecuniary position is precarious" and that he had been "fraudulently conveying away his property" until he had "substantially stripped himself of his assets," a Federal Court in Manhattan required "Tony" Biddle...
...Autumn is the biggest hog-marketing season, with spring next. Summer slaughtering is normally light, and this year the Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimates that it will be the lightest in 30 years, perhaps no heavier than in 1902 when only 4,750,000 pigs went to market in the July-September period. Drought and the AAA's restriction program have reduced the number of hogs on corn-belt farms 37% in the past year...