Word: elks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arizona Cattle Growers Association, in collecting evidence of vandalism by deer and elk hunters, heard from one rancher who found a cake of soap floating in his galvanized iron cattle-watering trough this fall, and then discovered a pit containing wood ashes beneath it. A luxury-loving hunter, he deduced, had not only taken a bath in the trough but had carefully heated the water first. Another hunter, according to the association's files, rode out on the range in search of game, dismounted to reconnoiter, sighted an animal, shot it, rushed up, knife in hand, to slit...
...Living Desert (Walt Disney) looks like the start of a grand-scale attempt to seduce Mother Nature with a motion-picture camera. Having handsomely reached first base with a few short sorties into the animal kingdom (Beaver Valley, Seal Island, Water Birds, Olympic Elk, Bear Country), Walt Disney has apparently decided to invite the whole creation to go commercial...
...Elk-Saddle Policy. Conceivably, a situation might arise in the thermonuclear age in which the U.S. would need such an outdated weapon as a battleship. In war, one never knows what will come in handy. When British troops landed at Narvik, Norway in 1940, some of them, according to one report, carried saddles for riding elk. Some thoughtful supply officer, with an eye to the rigors of an Arctic campaign, had ordered them years before. The Navy now has four battleships and 15 heavy cruisers in operation; they cost somewhat more than elk saddles. An effective weapons policy...
Moscow, Idaho is a pleasant, placid town in the middle of rolling, prospering farmland. There are 14 churches and a red brick railroad depot in Moscow, and the four-story Elk's Club is the tallest building in town. Local products are dried peas (nearly all the world's supply is produced in the area) and students (nearly a third of the town's 10,593 residents are students at the University of Idaho). Nobody really knows how Moscow got its name (it was possibly a gesture of sympathy toward Russia during the Crimean War), and hardly...
...tied up with any of the major companies made them, as well as the independents, trust him. He was sought for the industry's toughest assignments. For example, when the Navy in 1943 wanted to review the fairness of its arrangements for developing the famed Elk Hills oil reserves, it called on Jacobsen for his advice. But Jacobsen dodged publicity, stayed in the background. When he went to Denmark in 1945 after a 20-year absence, the Copenhagen press could get so little out of him that it styled him "the Oil Garbo." (U.S. oilmen call him "the Great...