Word: duck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boat that looks like a shallow square box on pontoons has been developed by Trail-Craft Corp. of Clarksburg, W. Va. Designed for use with an outboard motor, the boat weighs 230 lbs., can carry 750 Ibs. as a trailer, and also converts into a tent for four, a duck blind, a wading pool, a swimming raft. Price (including tent top and four cots...
...when President Eisenhower endorsed the idea of U.N. cease-fire talks. If Red China's Chou En-lai had accepted the U.N. invitation under the New Zealand resolution, he would have won wide international backing for a seat in the U.N. and, perhaps, a neutralized Formosa, a sitting duck for Chou to bag when he pleased...
...years ago Walt Disney decided to produce the adventure story, Treasure Island, with live actors instead of animated cartoon characters. Then a year later he released his first film on nature using live animals instead of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. Now Disney has tried to experiment again, this time by combining another favorite adventure tale for twelve year-olds with a sequence of scenes on The Living Sea. But the result is at best only mildly entertaining...
...Employee Wade Bowman, 24 confessed that he had robbed the firm of $5,000, explained: "They took $8 out of my check every week tor taxes, and that's too much." Do As I Say. At Sassafras River, Md. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents arrested four duck hunters for exceeding the daily limit and baiting too close to their blind, discovered that among the embarrassed group were Arthur H. Brice, chairman of the state's Department of Tidewater Fisheries and the Board ol Natural Resources, and Amos Creighton, Brice's No. 1 assistant...
...money as far as it could "unless the General Court should see meet to entertain a new thought, and build it by a committee of their own choosing..." In other words, the handsome dwellinghouse would cost more than one thousand pounds and the Corporation was trying to duck the extra bills...