Word: crows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Good old Crow" was the shout that went up from many sections when the crow-killing contest held by the du Pont powder company was announced (TiME, March...
...defense of crow-killing E. R. Galvin of the powder company, submits...
...replies from state game wardens and commissioners, 38 indict the crow...
...duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc., powder-makers, offered $2,500 in merchandise prizes to the individual or club which, at the end of a three months' season, has killed the most crows or other birds or animals termed "vermin" in the prospectus of their competition. To prove the verminosity of the crow, an expedition of the duPont company went to the islands off the Virginia coast, habitat of the "fish crow"-peculiarly vicious. Many notable men have sprung, indignant, to the crow's defense. To his people of the State of Maine, Governor Percival Proctor Baxter made proclamation...
Evidently the market for powder has fallen off, due to the fact that there is no active warfare going on in the world on a large scale, and so the poor crows must be used as an outlet for an unsalable product. Dr. Edward W. Nelson, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey, not only refused to endorse the crow-killing, but denounced it as being based upon "false information as to the nature of the crow." Massachusetts officials telegraphed the Deleware corporation protesting...