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...months in the field yielded them a rich haul of hundreds of small mammals and birds, material that would answer many a question of taxonomy and faunal distribution. Meanwhile, Theodore Roosevelt was collecting big game for the habitat groups of the Field Museum. His account of his hunt for the huge sledang and the cow-like banting in the jungles of Cochin-China occupies the last third of the narrative...
ERIE WATER-Walter D. Edmonds-Little, Brown ($2.50). Solid novel of the building of the Erie Canal, by the solid young author of Rome Haul and The Big Barn...
...distribute state employment more widely. In this he is of course artfully neglecting to remember that there are many administrative positions in government which are best managed by men who are students and whose abilities for officacious service to the community consequently surpass by far those of short-haul politicians. It is unfortunate that the political life of an informed and able man is entirely in the hands of politicians who concentrate only on their present term of office with especial reference to its effect on the possibilities of reelection. Under the conditions which Senator Nicholson advocates, it is hard...
...winter movement of freight. U. S. carriers to which Reconstruction Finance Corp. has already advanced $350,000,000 are precariously close to bankruptcy and such a subsidy to a competitor would complete their ruin. If the roads were paid what the seaway would cost U. S. taxpayers they could haul free all the grain it would carry and much more besides...
Under Captain Robert ("Bob") Bartlett the motored schooner Morrissey bore them through Davis Strait, past Kraulshafen, Greenland, where Dr. Belknap sent two assistants ashore; across Baffin Bay, across Melville Bay. Atop Cape York the jaunters found plenty of rocks but little labor to haul cement and scaffolding up the heights from the Morrissey. Seeking Eskimo helpers, the party went down the hill and over to Thule. a nearby village where lives Hans Nielsen, Danish Governor of the region...