Word: zoomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the U.S. is no more self-sufficient in giraffes, kangaroos and tapirs than it is in silk and tin, U.S. zoomen were greatly worried last week. Animal importations from Africa and Asia have dwindled with war's spread, now threaten to stop completely. Even South American animals are held up by lack of cargo space...
...answer is to line up the animal wagons in the parade of international politics. Zoomen plan to send aggressive collectors to Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, fight for ark space on banana-boat decks, show zoogoers the fauna of their Good Neighbors. Jennings is hoping that British Empire good will will bring in rare koalas from Australia, wingless kiwi birds from New Zealand (both are now legally barred from export...
Over the fate of the great European collections U.S. zoomen can only shake sad heads. In London poisonous snakes have been put to death lest they get loose during an air attack. But conditions are nowhere so bad as during the siege of Paris in 1870. Then the beasts in the splendid Jardin des Plantes were butchered for food. Lion, elephant and hippopotamus meat sold for $5 a pound, was hard to get even at that...