Word: breedings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Electrical communications have made carriers, with freak exceptions, obsolete. The lively sport of live-pigeon shooting is now generally illegal. The decline of the pigeon's utility has stimulated pigeon breeding as a sport. Leaving out pigeon racers, who breed, train and fly homing pigeons, and professional squab farmers, who rear pigeons for the table, there are more than 17,000 pigeon fanciers in the U. S. whose hobby is raising pigeons for shows. Last week, 8,000 fanciers and spectators and about half that many birds, worth $50,000, were in the State Armory at Peoria...
...lone, tipsy dissenter held up proceedings for ten minutes while he argued with great gravity that the press of urgent civic problems made duck discussion trivial if not unpatriotic. Earnest conservationists listened with growing restlessness as other speakers deplored the duck decrease, bemoaned the fact that since most ducks breed in Canada there is little the U. S. can do about it. The audience wanted something constructive. They got it when 260-lb. Ira Noel Gabrielson, Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, heaved up to speak...
...recommendations and reports on many subjects: Reorganization. "I find that this task of Executive management has reached the point where our administrative machinery needs comprehensive overhauling." Housing. "Many millions of Americans still live in habitations which not only fail to provide the physical benefits of modern civilization but breed disease. . . ." Tenancy- "I do not suggest that every farm family has the capacity to earn a satisfactory living on its own farm. But many thousands of tenant farmers-indeed most of them-with some financial assistance and with some advice and training, can be made self-supporting on land which...
...only five pairs entered in last year's Poultry Show, a handful of fanciers organized an Ornamental Pheasant Society, set out to advertise their pastime. Chosen president was Philip Morgan ("Phil") Plant, onetime Manhattan playboy and second husband of Constance Bennett, who settled down few years ago to breed bantams and pheasants on his 2,000-acre farm in Waterford, Conn. Vice President was Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck. Last week the Society had some 100 members, exhibited 41 pairs of birds...
Medical men who attended the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Atlantic City last week (see p. 48) found some tepid thrills. First there was the sight of high-spirited, mouse-breeding Professor Maud Slye of Chicago smiling wryly at high-spirited, mouse-breeding Dr. Clarence Cook Little of Bar Harbor. The smiling apparently ended 25 years of bickering over the inheritability of cancer (TIME, Nov. 16). To no one's surprise she popped up with her everlasting credo: "I breed out breast cancers. I don't think we should feel so hopeless...