Word: herds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With that comradeship which makes aviators of the world virtually an international elite, with the common herd of groundfolk more or less at their future mercy, German war aircraft factories opened to Colonel Lindbergh. He was permitted to inspect and fly German bombers. He learned enough German secrets to have hanged him ten times over had he been a Jew instead of the most popular of Nordics...
...stricken cattle country water holes and ponds had dried into cakey mud. Unless farmers could raise a bumper autumn crop of forage, which seemed unlikely, cattle would die by droves this winter. One of the states hardest hit by the drought of 1934, which reduced the total U.S. cattle herd some 9,000,000 head below normal, was North Dakota, which lost, either by forced slaughter or shipping, 1,000,000 animals. One of the states hardest hit last week was also North Dakota which would have to sell or ship 500,000 cattle immediately...
...male, keeping watch, and the calf. Nearby a young Grévy's zebra is suckling its mother. In the background baboons are scrambling over a steep cliff. On the plains of Tanganyika a group of mottled, sinister-looking wild dogs are intently watching a herd of zebra, ready to give chase and cut down a straggler. There is a group of five lions, including a superb black-maned male. Four giant sable antelopes are resting in a copse of acacia trees. A pair of Bongo antelopes are pushing into a bamboo jungle, disturbing a forest hog which heaves...
Carl Akeley was never afraid to get close to his animals. Once he was clawed by a leopard. On another occasion, while studying a herd of elephants, he was suddenly charged by a bull. His gun jammed. Akeley seized the tusks of the oncoming beast, swung himself between them so that they drove into the ground without touching him. With its trunk the elephant smashed the explorer's nose, laid open his cheek, broke several ribs which punctured his lungs, then was distracted by the native boys and gave chase. During a three-month convalescence in a hospital, Akeley...
...would have been in the soup line by this time except you grabbed hold of the public teat and have been milking $10,000 a year out of the taxpayers. You would really be worth more to the nation if you were cleaning up the waste behind a good herd of cows...