Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transport. Designer Martin already has on his drawing boards plans of a 118,000-lb. ocean transport, which will carry 100 passengers, sleep 66. Reported purchaser: American Export Air Line's, prospective affiliate of American Export Lines, whose ships will fly between the U. S. and Mediterranean and Black Sea ports...
...makes you look like a flapper"-TIME, Nov. 29), Manhattan's publicity-wise Arnold Constable & Co. dispatched a representative to Mrs. Garner with a dozen matronly hats, offered them to her as a gift. Valued at $169, all size 23. the assortment included a black felt brimmed model with green, lavender and red bows, a toque with iridescent feathers and odd-angled quills, a visor brimmed type with veil in front, a bumper roller with wraith of veil in the rear. Mrs. Garner refused to open the boxes, refused to accept the hats...
...three million brown muskrats are caught annually by fur companies like Orange Cameron Land Co. in the Louisiana bayous, the great U. S. muskrat country. Their pelts retail at from 50? to $1.25., But prime muskrat is black muskrat, whose native habitat is around the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and whose pelts bring $2. With the money he got for his trap factory Mr. Gibbs promptly bought 3,000 acres of muskrat marsh on Currituck Sound, N. C., began transferring his black muskrats south. More than half the 2,400 muskrats he caught alive in Maryland last year he shipped...
Since Mr. Gibbs went into the muskrat business he has caught about 75,000 animals, which would mean more than 1,000 muskrat coats if he had sold them all for fur. Actually he sells many alive to other breeders, some as far away as Czechoslovakia. A pair of black muskrats used to bring him $50, twice as much as he gets now. Almost all the skinned muskrats are sold to markets in Baltimore and Philadelphia. Sometimes the meat is retailed as "marsh rabbit," sometimes as terrapin...
...show, however, had one crisis. From among 75 black, blue, red, chocolate, cinnamon, silver, champagne, fawn, and agouti-colored rats & mice, and from 150 white, blue-cream, smoke, red tabby, and tortoise-shell cats, a Siamese named Marvella and a fancy rat named Minnie were chosen to appear together in an amicable picture. When Cat Marvella reached out a tentative paw of friendship. Rat Minnie flew into a huff, sank her sharp teeth into the paw. Marvella whimpered, withdrew her foot...