Word: auctioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, weather-beaten, rawboned ranchers and plumpish, pale-faced fur buyers jampacked a downtown Manhattan show room to find the answer at the first auction of the new fur. After two tense hours, the answer was in. The new fur (trade name "Silverblu" platinum) had edged out Russian sable to become, for the nonce, the rarest, highest-priced fur in the world. The 2,500 pelts at auction had sold for $375,000. Cost of a silverblu coat...
...industry, now booming as seldom before, the prime significance of the auction was its evidence that the use of genetics to produce mink mutations had opened up a new and fantastically profitable line of business...
...them up again. Now they are bumping against OPA ceilings. Thus, with dark mink pelts selling up to $35, 50-60% higher than a year ago, platinum fox at $270, all other furs up from 25% to 100%, the furriers' problem is not price but supply. Many an auction has been delayed recently for lack of furs to sell. Last week OPA gave furriers another pat on the pocketbook: it abolished price ceilings on fur coats costing over...
...could point to any organized sabotage, though the unfounded rumor that the herd had the dreaded Bang's disease looked suspiciously like a dirty Republican trick. But the strong gust of wind that blew the tent down, making it necessary to hold the auction in a crowded, drafty barn, was definitely an act of God. Even so, for a registered herd, the bids were suspiciously low. Jersey cows went at $100, and the owner stomped off in a huff when $10 was bid for a young bull. Squire Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s whole herd of 100 purebred dairy...
...Auction haunters, bargain hunters, household handymen are just waiting for the day when the war ends and Army supplies, tools, trucks-maybe even airplanes-will be for sale. For citizens who can get priorities to buy, the day is already here...