Word: wildfowlers
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...Some $76,000,000 is invested in wildfowl shooting properties...
...German was nearly always hungry, if he lived on his rations. If he went to a restaurant, he found it crowded and stifling, the shuttered windows keeping out the fresh air. Pork, veal and beef seldom appeared on the menus, but there was plenty of venison, wild pig and wildfowl. Shot on estates and in forests, they would not provide an inexhaustible food supply. These dishes were expensive, but the diner had to take them or else get nothing...
Dutchmen heard the German theorists passing overhead to their laboratory, the North Sea. High-flying bombers, moving above the autumn lanes of migratory wildfowl, but in the opposite direction, sought out a squadron of the British Navy which they evidently knew was out maneuvering in open water, or which they just happened to find there. Weather favored the fliers when they located their targets: clouds low enough to afford a screen for the dive bombers to come down through, yet not so solid but that heavy, non-diving bombers could drop "stuff" from far aloft through cloud holes...
...State police, collegians and private volunteers have for months been quietly scouting lakes, ponds, marshes and ocean inlets from Canada to Mexico. Last week the Biological Survey announced their findings. They had counted some 9,500,000 wild ducks and geese, estimated as one-quarter of the North American wildfowl population. For 5,000,000 U. S. wildfowlers that was cheering news. It marked the second consecutive year of duck increase. Duck Recovery to oldtime abundance, however, was still a long...
...fumbled in their gunning coats. Chaplain Phillips produced his license first. It was entirely in order. Pasted on it, as required by a law enacted by Congress in 1934, was a $1 Federal hunting stamp, proceeds from the sale of which are used to buy and develop land for wildfowl refuges. But when Gunner Van Devanter produced his license, Warden King's brows went...