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¶The President took a day away from Hyde Park to visit Lake Placid, Saratoga and Whiteface Mountain, attend local shindigs in behalf of forest conservation and public works.
To formulate his decision. Director Darling began with a duck census, taken by conservation agents and helpful sportsmen all over the U. S. one day last February, just before the northward flight (TIME, Feb. n). Census-takers posted themselves on bays, inlets, lakes and rivers in such a way as...
Since some 600,000 gunners bought the $1 duck stamps which Director Darling issued last year to raise funds for wild fowl conservation, he can count on probably one million duck gunners who, if each killed only a dozen ducks all season, would reduce the visible duck supply by one...
Central, prosperous Hankow, a teeming city (pop. 1,500,000) sometimes called "the Chicago of China," cowered in collective panic as most of the subsidiary dike systems were swept away and the great Chang-kung Dike built of cement under foreign supervision in 1931 held precariously. Amphibian planes reconnoitering above...
The announcement disposed of less than 5% of his spending job. He had already indicated he would spend $600,000,000 on CCC, doubling the size of the Conservation Corps. And Administrator Harry Hopkins took over $113,000,000 for April relief (of which Georgia was assigned none and Pennsylvania...