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Seven years ago, after the duck population had dropped to a miserable 30 million, sportsmen formed Ducks Unlimited (Canada) to restore drought-ridden breeding grounds and wage total war on duck-egg-eating crows and magpies. In the battle of the eggs, Ducks Unlimited paid 2? apiece for hundreds of thousands of crow and magpie eggs. In Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories, the conservation group built 130 duck refuges covering 1,200,000 acres...
Thanks to the recklessness of sportsmen pilots, the Grumman plane repair shop did a brisk business even in 1930. The partners bought one plane which had dived into a lake until only its tail was visible, for $450. They fixed it up and sold it for $20,000. They also made aluminum trailers, and finally landed their first Navy contract for two amphibian floats...
Carriage Trade. But Grumman could not live on Navy orders alone. He began to build de luxe amphibians for sportsmen and corporations to hustle bigwigs around the country.* By 1937, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. had so much business on the books it almost went broke. The company had run out of working capital, and owed the banks $450,000 (mainly because it had lost $100,000 on an amphibian-plane contract). To raise cash, Grumman got ready to float his first public stock issue. Then the market crashed. Wall Street's famed Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith...
...hunts by lions recur periodically around Mozambique. The last time was just before World War I. Then, construction of a railroad absorbed so much interest that sportsmen stopped hunting lions, the lions began to raid and hunt the natives...
Hunting de Luxe. Rich sportsmen, who paid $2,000 a month for Klein's services, remember him best for streamlining the safari. He blazed motor paths to first-class hunting grounds, organized the East African Guides Association to staff his fleets of cars and trucks. Barring the chase itself, his expeditions became as comfortable as weekend fishing trips...