Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life, the Archduke Rudolf was a rake and good amateur naturalist, organized a historical survey of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was rated as a dangerous radical for his anticlerical views. In the person of Charles Boyer he is represented as a handsome neurotic, ridden by court ceremonial, badgered by his father's spies, obstructed from netting the fluttering virginity of a beautiful child Baroness (Danielle Darrieux). Following the type of all well-bred monarchical romances, the Prince enjoys himself most when sharing incognito the simple pleasures of the poor. At the Prater, he spends an idyllic evening...
...extinct as the passenger pigeon. In 1886 the same number of U. S. citizens could not have extinguished the wild duck population if they had eaten duck for a fortnight. But ducks had already begun to decrease and it was in that year the Bureau of Biological Survey was created to study U. S. wild life. As the Bureau grew bigger, the U. S. game bird population grew smaller...
...Committee promptly recommended that $25,000,000 be earmarked for the restoration of lands suitable for wild life preserves. It was not forthcoming, but famed Cartoonist-Conservationist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling passed the hat around to various Government agencies before he resigned as Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, had managed to scratch up $8,500,000. From o.ther sources a total of $21,000,000 was finally obtained. In Denver, at the annual convention of the Western Association of State Game & Fish Commissioners, Ira Noel Gabrielson, rotund present chief of the Survey, hefted himself to his feet...
...American Export Air Lines, Inc.. proposes to start test flights as soon as equipment can be delivered by Martin or Igor Sikorsky. He asserts that this will probably be within 14 months, that Martins will be used on the Atlantic, Sikorskys on the Mediterranean. Meanwhile a widespread survey has been conducted and all foreign governments involved have been approached...
Cats. The specialist who presented a survey of "some conditions encountered in cat practice," was Dr. F. F. Parker of Des Moines. "Twenty years ago, possibly because of my life-long affection for dogs," he admitted, "I would hardly have believed that I would sometime present the subject of cat diseases before a group of veterinarians. However, constant association with any species of animal removes many dislikes." Some of the things constant association had taught Dr. Parker: "Very few cats bite or scratch except through fear"; a cat "can throw it [vomit] farther and harder than any other species...