Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swamp Naval Base...
...Sore spot of the Conference was the mosquito problem. According to conservationists, drainage ditches of the eastern U. S. (end to end, they would belt the world at the equator three times) have dried up swamp vegetation, starved out wildlife. And all for nothing, according to Dr. Clarence Cottam, chief of the Biological Survey's division of food habits. Said he: "The millions of dollars spent on mosquito control had resulted in more U. S. mosquitoes last year than there had been in the previous ten." Some of the mosquito projects, he said, were "comparable to curing dandruff...
...ever landed on an airport backwards. On that occasion the pilot overshot Chicago airport, bounced off the far end of the runway, cleared an embankment, and fetched up in a soggy meadow. The passengers sat, wondering what next, when suddenly the grounded airliner started backwards out of the swamp, rumbled over the embankment and back on the runway tail first, towed, they soon found out, by an airport tractor. Frank Black, who finds the lofty detachment of air travel just the ticket for writing arrangements, still likes...
...Amphibians, in press - are Federal Writers' Publications planned, edited, designed, and partially illustrated by me. Previous to WPA I owned a half interest in a Florida zoo since deleted by the Depression; served on expeditions of the New York Zoological Society to the Galapagos, Cuba, the Okefenokee Swamp;* worked between trips as a hardware salesman, ship's purser; wrote and published scientific articles and a children's book-Strange Animals and Their Ways. Appeared in 5th edition of American Men of Science at 25, just-published 6th edition bringing biography up to date...
Scalp 'em, swamp 'em; We will take 'em big score, Read 'em, weep 'em, Touchdown we want heap more...