Word: deer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Howard Earle Coffin, 64, cotton textile manufacturer, boomer of Georgia coastal resorts, onetime vice president of Hudson Motor Car Co. and member of the Wartime U. S. Aircraft Production Board; when a loaded rifle he was appar-ently cleaning for a deer-hunt went off; at Sea Island Beach...
...bandits never saw who fired at them. At the open window of his office, above the bank, wearing his white coat, stood Dentist Frank L. Hardy with a smoking rifle in his hands. He likes to hunt deer, had scored five hits out of six shots...
...soon obvious that a good many animals did not regard Shiva Temple as a "biological island." Naturalists Anthony and Andrews trapped or shot more mice, woodrats, chipmunks, a cottontail rabbit and observed droppings of deer and coyote all over the place. Even humans had ascended Shiva Temple, as primitive tools and ornaments attested. Eight days after the expedition began Mr. Andrews came down to admit that none of the specimens was "spectacular." Leader Anthony, however, thought he detected a "pale characteristic" in the animals-for example, a grey stripe in the chipmunks-and unusually "xerophytic" plants.* The mosquitoes, he said...
...cattle tick by the only sure method: dipping in an arsenical solution. Only a few counties in Texas and six in southern Florida are still under quarantine. Trouble there is that ticks are carried not only by cattle, horses, mules and sheep, which can be dipped, but also by deer, which cannot be dipped and might reinfest clean animals. Last month Florida decided the deer would have to be killed...
Florida State Livestock Sanitary Board scheduled for last week a gigantic deer hunt. Hired hunters were to kill some 1,000 deer in the quarantined area. At this point, the Florida Deer Protective Association promptly protested, pointed out that the State could not control the hunt because no provision had been made for fencing in the quarantined area. The huntsmen also pointed out that such wholesale hunting would be unsportsmanlike. The Association got a restraining order against the State, which last week decided to postpone the hunt indefinitely...