Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal penitentiary at Atlanta is making 500,000 yd. of duck cloth for the bleaching and shrinking of which the Department of Justice has a contract at 2⅝? per yd. with Delta Finishing Co. of Philadelphia. The finished product the Department of Justice sells to the War Department at a fixed price. With the job about half done, the Delta concern lately informed the Justice Department that it was now operating under an NRA code, that costs had gone up 35%, that it could not complete its contract without more money from the U.S. The Justice Department was agreeable...
...surveys in the U.S. and Canada indicate no alarming shortage of waterfowl, except brant, on which, because they have been so hard hit by the disappearance of eel grass (TIME, Aug. 21), the Advisory Board recommended a closed season; 2) on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, where most natural duck food has disappeared, and in the built-up Illinois valley, wintering waterfowl depend on sportsmen's grain for their food supply; 3) stoppage of baiting would close many a shooting club, throw many a bayman and other attendant out of work, stifle a market for millions of bushels...
Researchers Errington and Bennett conclude that about one duck is lost for each one bagged. Chief blame they lay on hunters' laziness in looking for wounded birds, their tendency to try overlong shots. They recommend a 50-yard range limit, more use of dogs as retrievers...
...Eastern duck hunters, Assistant Biologist Clarence Cottam of the U. S. Biological Survey this week had good news. On the coast and islands of North Carolina he had found eel grass coming back. A flowering saltwater plant, it normally mats the Atlantic coast's shallow-mud flats from Florida to Greenland. In 1931 it began to disappear. Simultaneously many a brant, Canada goose and black duck began to shrivel and die. Eel grass is the staple winter food of brant, important to other waterfowl...
Just off the coastal juncture of Virginia and Maryland lies small, picturesque Chincoteague Island. Sportsmen know it as a good place to go for fishing and duck-shooting. And once a year, during its Volunteer Firemen's Carnival, Chincoteague stages the East's only wild horse roundup. Last week came this "Pony Penning...