Word: northwesterly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ducks this year than in 20 years. Eight years ago droughts and free shooting had sliced the North American duck population to 30 million. Hunting laws were tightened, the Government started a huge conservation program. And Ducks Unlimited, an organization financed by alarmed sportsmen, reclaimed a million acres in northwest Canada for protected breeding areas. Result: this season there are 125 million ducks...
...been-there" club reported from the far Northwest this week is the Short Roaders, composed of those who have ridden, crawled or hiked more than 500 miles over the Alaska Military High way. Its membership certificate: a Canadian dollar bill, inscribed and signed in the Short Snorter manner...
...heights of the Sorrento peninsula overlooking the port and its bay. Twelve miles off, midway between the troops and Naples, Vesuvius loomed. Other troops already held Capri, the storied island just off the peninsula, the islands of Ischia and Procida in the Bay of Naples, Ponza and Ventotene northwest...
...disorder) may soon become conscious of Dr. Jon V. Straumfjord of Astoria, Ore. Nine out of ten people break out with acne during adolescence or later. Dr. Straumfjord is convinced that he can help most such sufferers, by large doses (100,000 units) of vitamin A every day. In Northwest Medicine he gives the results of his treatment of a sample group of 100 patients. They took the vitamin from three months to a year before they looked any better, but out of the 100 "79 became free, or nearly free, from the eruption and only three were unimproved...
Ensign John Landgraf of the fighting fourth finally has shoved off. Miss Marion Marchetti became his bride last Saturday morning in the Church of Mt. Carmel, Springfield, Mass. Northwest Massachusetts was the honeymoon setting, but unless the Landgrafs overstayed his leave they now are at home at 12 Bow Street, Cambridge...