Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balance by stepping in close instead of backing away when Petrolle came in. Just as in their first fight it had been amazing to see how little defense McLarnin had against Petrolle's right, it was amazing last week to see how seldom Petrolle managed to duck McLarnin's left. McLarnin nearly knocked him out in the sixth round, nearly did it again in the seventh and eighth, hammered Petrolle when he caught him in a corner in the ninth. At the end of the tenth round Petrolic, still savage, landed two hard rights on McLarnin...
...into pillows and mattresses. During the last few months, however, a great revival has been started by the feather-capped Empress Eugenie hats (TIME, Aug. 3). Raw ostrich which recently brought $15 a pound last week fetched $50 to $60. Lesser feathers showed equally heartening gains, except for the duck division. So overproduced are duck feathers that last week a Long Island dealer in them asked the State Department if a sale to Germany could not be arranged on terms similar to those proposed for overproduced U. S. wheat, cotton, copper. To feather-men throughout the world this was cause...
...parts of the U. S. Northwest and Canada almost hourly, asking his Societies to take action. Therefore he last week proposed that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde decree, as he is authorized by law to do, that there shall be no open season at all this year for duck-hunters. Duck-hungry gunners, their season already shortened, their bag already restricted (TIME, July 13) glowered in Dr. Pearson's direction, yet stroked their chins when they thought of a world shot completely out of wild fowl...
Reason for the duck scarcity is continuing drought, which has dried up the sloughs and ponds in southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana, chief North American breeding-places for ducks. Several yards from a marshy place on the prairie, the mother-duck builds her nest, lays in it from ten to 18 eggs. When these hatch, she leads the ducklings immediately down to the water. In ordinary times, duckling mortality is high. Turtles, hawks and even large fish consume many. In drought times mother & brood may find no water at all and so perish...
...Department of Agriculture news releases stiff and salutary punishments for hunting out of season. The bad example selected last week came from the Secretary's home State of Missouri, from near Jefferson City where he lived as Governor for four years (1921-25). A hunter had killed one wild duck from a motor boat during the closed season. His Federal fine...