Word: elks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area west of Denver and some 135,000 legal, licensed hunters were hot on the trail, the two poachers were serving out their time. Most Coloradans thought they had got just what they deserved. But even the legal hunters were cutting some unlovely capers as they went after deer, elk or bear...
Happy Hunting Grounds. Despite incidents and accidents, Colorado mainly welcomed the hunting invasion, which gives the state a $75 million yearly business. In Colorado's happy hunting grounds, deer hunters get their game 75% of the time, elk hunters 30%. Lured by the promise of profitable shooting, hunters from 44 states, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, and even South Africa, roamed the mountains last year. This year they ranged from completely outfitted safaris from Texas (one man towed a jeep-load of equipment behind his Cadillac) to local residents, who, for the price of a license ($7.50) and ammunition, could salt...
...shrewd political sense and good humor. A son of an Italian immigrant, DiSalle makes no bones about his ancestry. He is introduced as "Toledo's best amateur spaghetti cook." When a heckler asked him if he were a member of the Mafia, he replied no, but he was an Elk...
Three short features playing with Stranger In Between make this bill more enjoyable. Walt Disney's "live" nature cartoon, The Olympic Elk offers beautiful scenery, a ferocious fight between bulls, and playful antics among does during mating season. U. S. Olympic stars appear in a short documentary and for those who wish to see Gerald McBoing-Boing once more, don't hesitate...
...Elk Falls mill is largely the achievement of Robert Filberg, vice president of the Canadian Western Lumber Co. Throughout his 45 years in the British Columbia timber trade, Filberg always was bothered by the disheartening waste involved in harvesting pulpwood. In 1940, he decided to do something about it. Working with the province's forestry department, he experimented with new methods of logging waste wood and new-type machines to mill it. When the process was perfected, Filberg's company closed a deal with the U.S.-owned Crown Zellerbach Corp. to build the Elk Falls mill. Its success...