Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Gabrielson, an expert who has been with the Survey since 1915, reviewed its New Deal program of restoring marsh land for duck breeding grounds and refuges. Minimum requirement, said he, is 7,500,000 acres. The Survey is about halfway to that goal. But, continued the broad-beamed Chief, "there are two small groups among people who hunt who may defeat this program." One group is composed of commercial hunters, usually petty thieves and miscreants. "So long as a section of the American public will pay exorbitant prices for contraband game in restaurants, night clubs and hotels, we will...
...little town of McCook on the Republican River in Redwillow County, Nebraska, George Norris took his usual walk from his house down to Floyd Hagenberger's barber shop to get his morning shave. From the barber shop he strolled as usual to the real-estate office of Carl Marsh, almost the only one of his cronies of bygone days with whom he still is intimate, for the rest have become critical of his philosophy as they have grown well-to-do while he has only grown famous. There in the real-estate office he sat as usual, passing...
...social workers that "nowhere in the world is labor so well-protected as in Italy under the Fascist regime" is being comfortably noised this week in England. The Fascist maternity aid, child-training centres, workmen's sport fields and theatres, public works such as motor roads, reclamation of marsh lands, building of new cities, construction of transatlantic liners, excavations of noble Roman ruins, and colonization of Ethiopia are all positive achievements. The negative catcalls of Communists in the Daily Worker most certainly will not perturb Britain, nor frighten British investors in Glorious Ethiopia...
Announcement that the services of Leif Marsh and Odd Overgaad as jumping coaches for this year's ski squad had been secured promises a more balanced squad. Crimson strength in slalom and downhill events last year failed to compensate for weakness in the other events...
...River, Mead & Luth, after seven years of hard times, has begun to churn with dissatisfaction; the young people want higher wages, the old hands want a raise, Luth believes he has done a great deal for his employes by merely keeping them at work. When young, excitable Gregory Marsh proposes a union and draws up a contract, the force splits, the young people supporting the union, the oldsters indifferent...