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...alarming shortage of waterfowl, except brant, on which, because they have been so hard hit by the disappearance of eel grass (TIME, Aug. 21), the Advisory Board recommended a closed season; 2) on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, where most natural duck food has disappeared, and in the built-up Illinois valley, wintering waterfowl depend on sportsmen's grain for their food supply; 3) stoppage of baiting would close many a shooting club, throw many a bayman and other attendant out of work, stifle a market for millions of bushels of U.S. farmers' corn...
...actors ever have a chance to make an entrance that has been built-up for 40 years. In Manhattan one night last week George Bernard Shaw, playwright and actor, made such an entrance...
Stories of this type hold expansive possibilities for romantic tragediennes. Ruth Chatterton makes the most of them, particularly throughout the carefully built-up climax sequence at San Quentin prison, in which she bravely refrains from telling the district attorney the secret that might save her. Typical shot: Frisco Jenny watching the 1926 Stanford v. California football game in which her son plays for Stanford...
...Speed-reasonable and proper. An excess of 20 miles per hour in built-up districts and 35 elsewhere, presumptive evidence of a rate of speed unreasonable or improper." In fact should the wife of the passing motorist drive at this rate the State Police would more than likely require her presence before a judge...
...increase the park and play ground area, would relieve traffic congestion, would tie in with other traffic arteries which are being planned, would complete the park system along the Basin, and would do all this at a minimum cost as compared with street widenings or park construction in more built-up parts of the district. It would add greatly to the beauty of the Basin...