Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saludos Amigos (Jose Carioca, Donald Duck, Pedro; TIME...
...Shortland Island, 300 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. In a raid on shipping at nearby Buin, U.S. bombers encountered 45 Zeros. In a raid on the same area the following day, eleven Zeros, two U.S. bombers, six U.S. fighters were shot down. Later that week, low-flying bombers had to duck through strong ack-ack fire to score direct hits on four Jap cargo ships...
...great overabundance of U.S. wildlife, largely due to the war's curtailment of hunting, was reported by the eighth North American Wildlife Conference in Denver: >Pheasants are so plaguy numerous in some western states (especially the Dakotas) that farmers call them "pests." > Hundreds of thousands of wild ducks have been saved by Coast Guard restrictions, lack of gasoline, fewer hunters. The wild duck population is thought to be the heaviest in years, is making farmers angrier by turning crop lands into "picnic grounds...
...insignia such as the tin-helmeted bulldogs symbolic of the Marine Corps. A grinning death's head with an aviator's flight helmet surmounted by a black cat is popular among service flyers. In San Francisco last week sailors were still asking for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, but social-security numbers are more popular...
Saludos Amigos (José Carioca, Donald Duck, Pedro; TIME...