Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure yet that what happened in Germany couldn't happen here," a Canadian interviewer was told in London by Britain's No. 1 Jewish industrialist Lord Melchett. "Another slump like the last one-and I'm afraid we'd have civil war in Britain!" Melchett told of advising the Government to buy 300,000 tons of copper at Depression's dirt-cheap price of $150 per ton, remarked that the Government is now screaming for copper at $350 per ton, cannot find as much as it wants for rearmament...
...problem. Not overshooting, but destruction of breeding grounds by agriculture and drought was the prime cause of duck decrease. And approximately 80% of all ducks shot in the U. S. breed in Canada-chiefly on the prairies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. In 1935 More Game Birds surveyed the Canadian region, saw what needed to be done. This year it is ready with a well-rounded program to sell to U. S. duck hunters...
Ducks Unlimited wants 1,000,000 Canadian acres for its duck preserve. It expects to get most land by grant, lease or easement, but will buy when necessary. First thing nesting ducks need is plenty of water, and Ducks Unlimited, tying in with Canada's prairie farms rehabilitation program, will scatter its lands with dams, dikes, ditches. After the engineers will come a permanent corps of wardens, biologists, breeding experts. They will see that ducks get plenty of food and cover, will fight against botulism and other epidemics which sweep duck populations. They will destroy the crows, cats, coyotes...
With this ambitious but entirely practicable vision, Ducks Unlimited has in three months enlisted thousands of sportsmen throughout the land, set up active recruiting committees in 35 States. Four Canadian directors of the organization have been selected, four U. S. directors will soon be named. Frederick Hudson Ecker, president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., has agreed to serve as treasurer of Ducks Unlimited, spending $600,000 per year for five years. Already enough has been pledged so that, when the ice goes out of Canadian lakes late this spring, Ducks Unlimited can set to work to make its name come...
Silent Barriers (Gaumont British) amounts to one more indication that Great Britain's cinema industry would do well to give Hollywood an exclusive franchise on celebrations of the British Empire's past. To make a dull picture about the 1886 building of the Canadian Pacific Railway through the Rockies, climaxed by the fight between Canadian Pacific's William Cornelius Van Home and Great Northern's James Jerome Hill, sounds difficult. Silent Barriers-for which Director Milton Rosmer took cast and crew to Revelstoke, B. C. and endangered all their lives to photograph a forest fire-makes...