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President Roosevelt served notice last week that he would ask Congress to pass a postwar compulsory universal service law this winter. Franklin Roosevelt carefully avoided the word "military," suggested that training might be along the lines of the old Civilian Conservation Corps. Nevertheless the President's words were the...
The cheering lasted ten minutes, as the President's car entered the stadium, half-circled the field, then drove up on a ramp. Microphones were set up on the tonneau, and the President spoke from his car. Again he opened with sarcasm: "This is the strangest campaign I have...
Seven years ago, after the duck population had dropped to a miserable 30 million, sportsmen formed Ducks Unlimited (Canada) to restore drought-ridden breeding grounds and wage total war on duck-egg-eating crows and magpies. In the battle of the eggs, Ducks Unlimited paid 2? apiece for hundreds of...
The blue and green-winged teal had already begun to fly; canvasbacks, mallards, widgeons, pintails, shovelers and redheads would follow soon, before and with the frost. In western Canada last week 140,000,000 ducks (a 10% increase over last year, 450% more than in 1934) flocked and fattened for...
¶ A one-wall kitchen combination. Most revolutionary feature: a refrigerator with separate drawers instead of a single door, for handier food storage and conservation of cold air.