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This year, winging south from Canada, come the heaviest flights of wild duck in ten years-20% more than last year, thanks to providential June rains in the Canadian breeding grounds and the efforts of Ducks Unlimited, a popular-subscription organization that has spent a quarter of a million dollars in the past two years restoring duck-nesting marshes in Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ducks | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Heaviest instalment buying was in biggish cities; small cities have less, metropolises like New York and Chicago (where fewer families own automobiles) still less. Farm families did least instalment buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Facts on Instalment | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...corn crop was one of the heaviest in recent U. S. history; the tobacco crop broke records; the wheat crop, already in (with spring wheat covering the fields of Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, with a yellowish-brown six-inch stubble) was estimated at 736,115,000 bushels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Pursuit of Happiness | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Oldtimers on the north tip of Denmark remember a special kind of sea thunder, which they heard during the late afternoon and night of May 31, 1916. It was the firing of heaviest naval ordnance and it came from the Battle of Jutland (Germans call it the Battle of the Skagerrak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Jutland No. II | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...professors, Professor Burbank's resignation last spring as chairman of the Economics department lent itself too easily to interpretation as a protest against the Administration's tenure policy. It is now clear as Professor Burbank says, that this was "an unjustified assumption." Professor Burbank, besides carrying one of the heaviest teaching loads in his department, has been the able administrator not only of the department but of its Board of Tutors and its large introductory course. The Crimson regrets that it was carried away by its own strong desire for an explanation of a new policy's woefully abrupt application...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR BURBANK QUITS | 9/28/1939 | See Source »

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