Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Carolina's lame duck Senator Cotton Ed Smith galumphed into Washington, vowed he could wreck Term IV. He organized a National Agricultural Committee, set out to "deliver the nation's farm vote" to Tom Dewey in the next five weeks. Roared metaphor-mixing Cotton Ed: "We have taken a nose dive into hell! I have great hopes that a miracle will gird up its loins and try another deal." Next day, the committee folded...
...veteran of Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian was on his way home last week, on leave. His name: Siwash. His species: duck (the mascot of a Marine Corps artillery outfit). His combat record...
...Tinian, Siwash got back into his waddle: he hit the beach on D-day and personally captured a tiny Jap duck. But he had to leave his war bride behind...
Seven years ago, after the duck population had dropped to a miserable 30 million, sportsmen formed Ducks Unlimited (Canada) to restore drought-ridden breeding grounds and wage total war on duck-egg-eating crows and magpies. In the battle of the eggs, Ducks Unlimited paid 2? apiece for hundreds of thousands of crow and magpie eggs. In Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories, the conservation group built 130 duck refuges covering 1,200,000 acres...
...cycle had made a full turn, and a million U.S. duck shooters looked forward to the best season in years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with an eye toward crop damage from the excess stock, added ten days to the season (which opens next week in the Northern Zone). In addition, the WPB relaxed shotgun ammunition restrictions, allowing each hunter four boxes (100 shells) instead of the one box allowed last year. The hunter's problem was to get his four boxes; most dealers still had scant supplies, were doling out one box per person. It might...