Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pamphlet circulated among members. When the meeting began, Dr. William Temple Hornaday, on the side of the insurgents, read a series of resolutions which he thought would improve the ideals of the society. He called for a backing of the McNary-Haugen bill to make permanent the new Federal bag limit of 15 wild ducks per day. He also wanted to put a stop to the baiting of wildfowling grounds, the use of live birds as decoys. He wanted a Federal limit of eight weeks for the open season on wildfowl...
...attacked administration retorted quickly to Dr. Horriaday's suggestions. They said they had always upheld all of his resolutions except the McNary-Haugen bill. They were against this bill because they felt that the Biological Survey which now sets bag limits was i.e better position than Congress to know what was best for U. S. birds. The Biological Survey has a staff of scientists who do nothing but study bird conditions...
...back to Arizona again. He said he would not even write any more of his famed Arizona stories (Under the Tonto Rim, Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon, etc.). He charged neighboring hunters with spreading untrue, derogatory tales about his sportsmanship. Said he: "In twelve years my whole bag of game has been five bears, three bucks and a few turkeys. I have written 15 novels with Arizona background. Personally it cost me $30,000 to get material for one book alone-To the Last Man. My many trips all over the State have cost...
...Instantly the compressed-air tank and the engine burst, the explosion throwing the crew and their one passenger 40 ft. to the ground, wrecking the fore part of the gondola, scattering a shrapnel of splinters. Flames from the carburetor shot upward but burned out without igniting the hydrogen-filled bag...
...trial flight Capt. Heinen had landed his blimp in 46 sec. He was planning to make the gondola detachable from the bag, for operation on earth as an automobile. At the end of the flying season, the owner might deflate the bag, store it in his garage...