Word: marshland
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...they disturbed my sleep. I couldn't help be sorry for them. For once they were discontent with domesticity. The boundary of their world had suddenly grown larger than the barn lot, the grove, the garden and the orchard. Somewhere far to the south waited a wide, gray marshland, pale and misty under the warm southern moon-waited the winter haven for all the web-footed creatures...
...Bennett Field, built five years ago on Brooklyn's Barren Island at a cost of $4,000,000, has been virtually deserted while Newark Airport grew fat & famed as the world's busiest commercial flying field. But the latter's sagging runways, built on filled-in marshland, are so bumpy that airline pilots call it "Mount Newark." For lack of hangar space at Newark, TWA has agreed to move to Floyd Bennett by Jan.1. To hold other airlines at "Mount Newark," Mayor Ellenstein offered them free hangar rent for six months, no more municipal taxes...
Sportsmen who last week examined the new $1 Federal Duck Stamp, which every U. S. duckhunter must henceforth paste on his hunting license, recognized a familiar touch. About the size of a special delivery stamp, it showed a male and female mallard coming to rest on some marshland. It was drawn by one of the nation's best cartoonists and its first anseriformiphile, Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, who last March became chief of the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Biological Survey (TIME, March 26). Postoffice officials expect it to become a collectors' item...
Along a strip of frosty marshland at Red Deer Ranch, Cherry County, Neb., Gen. John Joseph Pershing prowled with a gun. Two companions crouched beside him. On a nearby pool they espied a flock of wild ducks cutting the water zigzag. General Pershing approached...
...Migratory Bird Refuge and Marshland bill which will come before Congress in its impending session provides for Federal purchase of sanctuary feeding as well as breeding grounds...