Word: beaverisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...originator of "Bonmouton," a beaver-like fur made by plasticizing sheep pelts, Eitingon had enthusiastically expanded, bought seven processing plants, talked of selling 15,000,000 mouton coats (from $100 to $200). But the processing took longer than anticipated and he found himself short of ready cash...
...tons, the British sold 30,000 tons just before domestic ceilings were removed. But since then they have failed to offer a single ton. Meanwhile, prices on the New York Cocoa Exchange have soared from 14.5? to 19.75? a pound. In their dingy offices on Manhattan's Beaver Street, cocoamen fumed: "The squeeze...
...year-old veteran and holder of the Purple Heart, Moravec was graduated in 1941 from Beaver Falls, Pa., High School, where he played on the football, basketball, and baseball teams. He entered Lehigh University in the fall of 1941 and spent two years at that institution, during which time he was first-string fullback on the Lehigh eleven...
Beaverbrook's guide to the aspiring poor was printed not in his own gigantic Express, but in an obscure London weekly, the Recorder, which failed to tell its readers that the articles had been written and published 20 years before. His smart Publisher William Brittain, once briefly a Beaver boy himself, had persuaded Lord Beaverbrook to let him reprint the articles free. Result: the Recorder's circulation jumped from 10,000 to 40,000. If no one else made a fortune out of the Beaver's advice, Publisher Brittain seemed likely...
...ever got a divorce from Wife No. 2. He had been just too extravagant, Virginia's mother told the newspapers. Mother had had to put her foot down: "Not mink, I told him. . . . He begged so hard, I finally allowed him to buy her a seven-skin beaver . . . $1,500. . . ." Suddenly the wind shifted. Said lovelorn Virginia to the newspapermen: "I've changed my mind...