Word: litters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would farm out pairs of their offspring to smaller raisers, promising to buy the grandchildren back at $2 a head.* Then she would market the lot in huge batches. Prices and customers at first were all Mrs. Brown could ask. Her rabbits multiplied with their well-known rapidity (six litters per year, of four to eight offspring per litter). But suddenly the booming U. S. rabbit industry became overproduced everywhere. And last week bankrupt Mrs. Brown explained: "About a year ago rabbits began coming in from everywhere, thousands of them, by parcel post, truck and express. I couldn...
Cottontails raise at least two litters per season with an average of eight to a litter. New Jersey's new Westerners, but for automobiles and other foes, would number around 180,000 by the end of a year...
...party of Norwegian scientists from the sealer Brattvaag put ashore on desolate White Island northeast of Spitsbergen three weeks ago. About 150 yards from shore they rounded a big rock, stopped, stared with amazement at a litter of cooking utensils laid bare of ice by the August sun. The same question sprang to the mind of each, the same name to all their lips: "Andr?...
Some German soldier probably found the litter of puppies on a deserted Alsatian farm and took them along with him for luck. When luck went bad, he left them behind. The Allied troops getting into the captured sector found the puppies in a dugout, whimpering with hunger. They were pure-blooded Belgian police dogs with skinny ratlike bodies and long black noses. The litter was divided and one Lee Duncan, lieutenant in the U. S. aviation corps, got a handsome male and a young bitch. There was a story going around then about two lovers, Rin Tin Tin and Nanette...
...completion of the work has been hindered by the delay of the plasterers who were working on the ceiling. Due to the litter which dropped from this work into the pool the tilers were unable to proceed with the final cleansing. The plastering and lighting have by this time both been completed, however, and the pool was thoroughly cleansed yesterday...