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...street "Bent Arm Boulevard." ¶ He maintained a Disciplinary Training Camp at Pisa, where G.I. prisoners "get the sweatbox for making a wrong turn. [It] is full of delightful [punishment] routine like cleaning a mess kit with a needle, or walking for hours squatting on the hams and making duck noises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Courthouse | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...Signed) "Head Chief Duck Chief, L. Many Bears, Paul Little Walker, Ben Calf Robe [Blackfoot tribe]; Chief Enos Hunter, Chief David Bearspaw, Jacob Twoyoungmen, Councilors Isaac Two-youngmen, John Powderface, Tom Kaquitts [Stoney tribe]; Councilors Judas Hunter, Jonas Rider; David Crowchild, Eddie One Spot, George Runner [Sarcee tribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ALBERTA: More Wampum | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...demonstration. Andrews asked Communist Fryer for an explanation. He got an apology, and a promise from Fryer that he would never wear his Red sympathies in public again. But Reporter Fryer refused to renounce his Communism. The issue was plain; and neither the editor nor his employee tried to duck it. Wrote Editor Andrews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rights v. Duties | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...ducks do not have much sense, a dog's bark or a floating feather may scare them into piling up in great heaps in which the bottom ducks smother. Sometimes dive-bombing seagulls frighten them into drowning. Diseases may wipe out whole hatches. Yet when the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association recently hired a retired physician to conduct research into cures, he had difficulty getting information from tight-lipped quack farmers. During the prosperous war years, duck farmers netted anywhere from $7,000 to $50,000 a year-thanks partially to the 90? a pound they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Quack Farmer Trouble | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...simply measure their profits by money in the bank (or sock), their deficits by money owed the bank (many of them borrow at the start of the season). Last week, most of them thought they were losing money, but none knew for sure. This much they did know: a duck eats 25 pounds of feed in the nine weeks it takes to reach the five-pound-plus marketing size. At $100 a ton for feed, that is $1.25 for a duck which now brings around $1.22½ at the commission house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Quack Farmer Trouble | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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