Word: fishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firebreak in his woods, letting newshawks know that his 560-acre tract adjoining his mother's estate is not a gentleman farmer's operation run at a loss which he can deduct on his income tax return (as suggested by his district's Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish), but a timber operation (cordwood, fence posts, Christmas trees) on which he should realize a small profit. With him on this weekend was Author Emil Ludwig, biographer of the great, whose next subject is Franklin Roosevelt...
...freak draw in They Knew What They Wanted), and the new Boothbay Play house, Lakewood gets its customers from all over the State. Usual week's gross is $2,500. Three years ago, when Groucho Marx appeared in Twentieth Century, the take was doubled. Skowheganites say that fish came out of the lake to see that show...
...lion lovers on the Pacific Coast were further horrified last week when California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam signed a law providing that the Fish & Game Commission be "empowered to reduce the seal or sea lion herds by humane methods whenever such a course is deemed advisable, and to sell the animals, the pelts or carcasses. . . ." But reassurance came when it appeared that the Commission had no intention of using its destructive powers for several years, until the herds had increased to the point where control measures are necessary. The amendment also tightened the restrictions against killing or capturing...
...turn of the century they were on the increase again. Fishermen claimed that they ate great quantities of salmon and damaged many nets. Zoologists doubted this. One professor opened a number of sea lion stomachs, found nothing but squid. Fishermen were in the saddle, however, and forced the Fish & Game Commission to start slaughtering. In 1909 some measure of protection was provided, but sporadic killing continued, many animals were taken for zoos and circuses, and hundreds of bulls were slaughtered every year for their genitalia from which Chinese manufacturers make a compound supposed to rejuvenate old men. The last census...
There is no doubt that sea lions eat a few salmon, damage a few nets. But the California Fish & Game Commission now believes that they do much more good than harm because they eat valueless and destructive fish such as morays, squid, octopi, dogfish, deepwater crabs. The Commission also believes that there are enough natural checks to keep sea lions from, increasing too fast. It takes six weeks for the pups to learn to swim, and many are drowned before they learn. Others are trampled to death by careless parents. Killer whales and sharks eat sea lions young...