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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Already a quarter of a million dollars has been appropriated to finance immediate needs...
...This I ask: If forty-six million Englishmen claim the right to rule over forty million square kilometers of the earth, it cannot be wrong for eighty-two million Germans to demand the right to live on 800,000 square kilometers, to till their fields and to follow their trades and callings, and if they further demand the restitution of those colonial possessions which formerly were their property, which they had not taken away from anybody by robbery or war but honestly acquired by purchase, exchange and treaties. Moreover, in all my demands, I always first tried to obtain revisions...
Acting is a comparatively new experience for him; since college he has spent most of his time directing, Woolley remarked. Ten years ago he directed Cole Porter's "Fifty Million Frenchmen" in Boston. Cole Porter was his best friend at Yale, and Bob Benchley his side-kick while at Harvard...
Tobacco's bad year followed a good year. Last December, when tobacco growers were called to a crop-control referendum, they had just finished disposing of a big (800-million-pound) crop at the satisfying average price of 22? per pound. They sneered at the compulsory quotas Henry Wallace wanted them to vote and proceeded to plant a far greater acreage this year than quota allotments would have permitted. Fine weather favored the growing, and up sprouted 1,014,000,000 pounds of fat tobacco, 200 million pounds more than a maximum year's consumption...