Word: extinctionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Whalers and whale-users fear extinction of their raw material. This year yielded a catch so great (650,000 long tons) that the oil and fat market is glutted. By agreement of the chief whaling companies, there will be no more whaling until the end of 1932.-ED.
Mingled in the newsroom conversation were impulses of self-preservation and sentiment, also anger at Old Joe's inept sons who had not given their employes any warning, any chance to take the papers over and keep them running. Someone suggested that the employes band together now-surely the...
Last week five Senator: who are interested in U. S. animals, members of the special Senate Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources, made their first report to fellow-Senators. They announced that the U. S. must do more if its animals are to be kept from extinction. The Senators...
First effect of annexation would be the extinction of Tia Juana and Agua Caliente just over the border as drinking-racing-gambling resorts for U. S. tourists.
For eight years natives of Zululand, Union of South Africa, have been killing off wild animals to protect themselves from sleeping sickness. The slaughter has threatened some African animals with extinction. Dr. William Reid Blair, director of the New York Zoological Park, sent a protesting cable last week to C...