Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partly by becoming an engineer. The danger now is that the engineers will make apes of all of us." When asked why the pockets of his lost & found overcoat contained fish-hooks, Col. Theodore Roosevelt explained: "I captured [them] from the New Deal. They had been using them to catch suckers...
...declares "It is to sing in opera that I would give my shirt," it is therefore not surprising that she should indeed trade her shirt, etc. for a brief costume of feathers and a habitat in darkest Africa. Her purpose, inspired by Pressagent Corny Davis (Jack Oakie), is to catch the attention of Talent Scout Lucius B. Blynn (Edward Everett Horton), in Africa on a big-game-hunting vacation...
...Gibbs was pleased to find he could. He invented two traps: one which got the muskrats not only by the leg (which they often gnaw off to escape) but also by the body; another which netted them, captured them alive. Before long he was inventing and manufacturing traps to catch everything from English sparrows to bears. By 1919 he had a large factory in Trainer, Pa., made as many as 2,000,000 traps a year, grossed annually as much as $400,000. But the fur business in all its branches was hit hard by Depression. Last year he sold...
Boston, the home of the bean and the cod, is also the home of the U. S. wool market. Until six years ago the Boston wool market was catch-as-catch-can. Buyers went west, bought up raw wool, carried it back to Boston warehouses whence it was sold to mills. In 1931, however, a group of woolmen founded a wool tops futures market under the wing of the New York Cotton Exchange. Lately wool prices have slumped as have most other commodities and last week the wool business, still unused to the complexities of a futures exchange, suddenly began...
...each family lives alone, which makes muskrat census-taking easy. Walter Abner Gibbs, who is the biggest muskrat breeder in the eastern U. S., used to wade round his 700 acres of Maryland marshland in hip boots, counting muskrat houses to see how large his next year's catch would be. But last week impatient Walter Gibbs decided to take this year's muskrat census by airplane, an innovation. He counted 4,000 muskrat huts, estimated they had 20,000 tenants...