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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Warden Alson: "A barrel of corn mash, charged with alcohol, is left overnight near a sand bar or a sluice where wild ducks are known to feed. Early the next morning the hunters return. There are the ducks, either sleeping off a hangover or staggering around making silly quacking sounds. The alcohol leaves the ducks incapable of flying or swimming, and they are caught easily by hand. Some die of acute alcoholism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Drunken Ducks | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...poet, who wishes not to play games with words, His affair being to awake dangerous images And call the hawks;-they all feed the flit tire, they serve God, Who is very beautiful, but hardly a friend of humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hawk-eye | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...From the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Surplus Relief Corp. acquired 9,200,000 Ib. of pork, started it on its way from Chicago to feed New York City's and Buffalo's hungry idle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Fifth Winter | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...Administrator Hopkins ordered emergency relief committees throughout the land to feed 6,000,000 undernourished children of unemployed parents one meal a day at Government expense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Fifth Winter | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

Puzzled as were Pollux and I to see that Hitler's Germany has gone the Golden-Rule-Day Society twelve better by decreeing a national monthly fast day, the household savings of which are to feed the local starving Armenians, we were even more struck by the incongruity of a message sent down by the Soviet ballooners to their listening fans on the ground. Having attained the height of 11.8 miles above the earth, they radioed: "We are doing well and send our best wishes." For a very happy Stratostat Year? CASTOR...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

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