Word: babcock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ornithologist doubted that the hawk or hawks were solely responsible for the 75 pigeon carcasses found in the Memorial Hall tower Friday by James Babcock, sub-foreman of the Maintenance Department. Duck hawks are only half as meaty as pigeons, he says, and would hardly eat more than one third of the pigeon...
...Babcock has made this tour for 19 years and never seen the likes of this slaughter. The guilty hawk, he says, shuttles regularly between the Mom Hall and Memorial Church towers at feeding time, looking for his meal...
...Last year's owl ate like a bird compared to this hawk," Babcock said...
...native of Schenectady, N.Y., Cox got his start in business in 1914 as a public accountant, worked for Crucible Steel and Babcock & Wilcox before joining Big Steel's National Tube Co. in 1934 as general superintendent of the Ellwood City, Pa. plant. In 1943 he moved to the presidency of National Tube, and was awarded a Certificate of Merit by President Truman for boosting steel production during World War II. He moved over to Carnegie-Illinois as president...