Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next fall may be the last good bird and duck hunting season for the duration. Reasons : 1) gunmakers are too swamped with war orders to spare time for sporting arms; 2) the government is taking all new twelve-gauge shotgun shells (most popular size) for aerial gunnery training,-war-plant guards and the police (riot guns). Plenty of ammunition is in stock for this year's expected civilian demand, but there will be little left over...
...Making the Mackinac" (pronounced mackinaw) is the dream of every inland yachtsman. Not only is it the world's longest fresh-water race (331 miles as the duck paddles), but according to old salts it is no less hazardous than the longer, more spectacular ocean races. In 35 thrashes to Mackinac since 1904, no lives have been lost, but enough boats have been disabled to give the affair a fearsome reputation. One year only eight of 42 starters reached the finish line. Often the winning boat takes nearly four days. Once an all-female crew took two weeks...
...Missouri-projects fully supported by the Army and Navy Munitions Boards and every other war agency. The Seventy-seventh Congress has failed us in our war effort. It is up to the people to see that the Seventy-eighth is of different make. For the number of dead-duck obstructionists bagged by the season's windup in November will unfailingly determine the future success of America's war effort...
From the Department of the Interior last week came smothered sounds of scuffling and hard breathing. Finally, out from under the flapping wings of Secretary (Donald Duck) Ickes two men bolted...
...CASE OF THE DROWNING DUCK- Erle Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, hired to investigate an 18-year-old California murder mystery, saves a likable youngster from the results of his hocus-pocus with detergents, runs a crook to earth, and solves two contemporary poisonings. Enough plot and action for two novels...