Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned. Three years ago, Warner Brothers released a one-reel short called Good Badminton. Last year the firm of Fanchon & Marco hired Jess Willard to play exhibition matches in movie houses. Current rumor is that Walt Disney will produce a badminton cartoon in which Mickey Mouse will oppose Donald Duck. In Hollywood, badminton is not only handy as a sport and reducing exercise but also as an excuse for new poses by actresses like Sonja Henie, Glenda Farrell, Joan Crawford, Anita Louise, Simone Simon (see cuts, p. 35). In addition to novelty, badminton has over tennis the advantage that, since...
...snowshoe, agents of the Bureau of Biological Survey, game wardens, State police, collegians and private volunteers have for months been quietly scouting lakes, ponds, marshes and ocean inlets from Canada to Mexico. Last week the Biological Survey announced their findings. They had counted some 9,500,000 wild ducks and geese, estimated as one-quarter of the North American wildfowl population. For 5,000,000 U. S. wildfowlers that was cheering news. It marked the second consecutive year of duck increase. Duck Recovery to oldtime abundance, however, was still a long...
Toward the duck renaissance, progress should be made by a new conservation body incorporated in the U. S. last January and in Canada last week. Its name: Ducks Unlimited...
...Manhattan seven years ago a group of sportsmen and businessmen organized More Game Birds in America, Inc., early realized that, so far as ducks were concerned, conservation in the U. S. was only a fraction of their 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...
...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...