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At Fort Monmouth, N.J., where the Signal Corps has 2,000 pigeons in training, Lieut. Thomas MacClure will not have far to look for his pursuit birds. The best U.S. native hunter is the peregrine, or duck hawk, a long-winged bird of prey that has nested for centuries in...
With a wingspread of six to seven feet, the adult golden eagle is about the same size as the full-grown bald eagle (U. S. national emblem) but the golden eagle is fiercer and stronger. It preys mostly on small mammals such as rabbits and squirrels, whereas the bald eagle...
While New Yorkers watched their crusading District Attorney Thomas Dewey expose a gambling racket that preys on the pennies of the poor, Chicagoans were last week being treated by their State's Attorney Thomas Courtney to a more de luxe gambling crusade. Shuttling across the sprawling city, Mr. Courtney...
Size of a grasshopper invasion depends on two factors: i) the number of eggs laid the previous year; 2) the wetness or dryness of the weather. Moderate rain during the spring months keeps down grasshoppers because in moist weather a parasitic fungus flourishes which preys on the larvae. Scientists estimate...
Contracting-Day before his policy raids Prosecutor Dewey made his first public move, after a 13-month investigation, against an electrical contracting racket. Subpoenaed were the books of city power companies, of three trade associations, private contractors, and of a local of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (an A. F...