Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bought by the U. S. Biological Survey for a wildfowl refuge were 40,000 acres at the Mississippi's mouth, onetime hunting preserve of the late Joseph Leiter. There the Chicago wheat speculator's yacht Emmie sank, there his remaining eye was injured in a duckblind, there his Son Joseph Jr. was killed in a hunting accident and there he caught the cold which went into pneumonia and ended his life...
...around Luling, some 60 miles from San Antonio. Not a drop of oil was found. His two geologists, having learnedly proved that the field was dry, packed up and went home. Creditors took his furniture. The banks declined to renew his notes. His neighbors, pointing to a new boundary survey, forced him to move his last drill from a spot he had selected to a spot which, he was afterwards convinced, Divine Providence had picked for him. The day the bank returned his check for $7.40 marked "Insufficient Funds," the penniless wildcatter struck oil. In three or four years North...
...office at the Department of Agriculture, behind a desk often littered with drawing papers, crayons and watercolors, sits a quizzical, conscientious public servant whose fame is far greater as Cartoonist J. N. ("Ding") Darling of Des Moines, Iowa than as Director Darling of the U. S. Biological Survey. Upon him, for many months, have converged strong currents of conflicting opinion, brought to bear by two opposing armies of enthusiasts on an issue which it was ''Ding" Darling's public trust and duty to decide...
...over the U. S. one day last February, just before the northward flight (TIME, Feb. n). Census-takers posted themselves on bays, inlets, lakes and rivers in such a way as to try to avoid counting the same ducks twice. Against the rough tally thus obtained, the Biological Survey checked later reports from northern breeding grounds, arriving at the figure of 24,000,000 as the number of ducks that will fly south this autumn...
...also state that Miss Hill's researches ''quieted the suspicions' of mercurochrome's usefulness. A reading of the editorial in the same issue of the A. M. A. Journal might have convinced you otherwise. That, which is in the nature of a survey of the clinical literature on the subject, indicates that other experimentations have been definitely less favorable towards mercurochrome's value, and that Miss Hill's procedure was not flawless...