Word: brother-in-law
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Many other fox breeders, including his brother-in-law, had switched their farms to mink, but Nieman did not think the shift worthwhile. Though mink are cheaper to raise (their feed costs from $10 to $14 a year), Herb Nieman thinks that mink will soon be overproduced, too. And mink raisers, who were getting as little as $11 a pelt (as against $20 last year), were wondering whether they will meet costs...
Last Word. In Gateshead, England, Bill Hudson was charged with killing his brother-in-law during a quarrel over the spelling of the word "twelfth...
Like a Board. A lean French Canadian taxi driver, John Lecomte, 36, joined up with his brother-in-law, Einer Frykberg. They left Frykberg's hardware store to his wife, drove Lecomte's taxi in as far as they could, and headed into the bush. Bartender John York hiked 15 miles in & out, then found that he had forgotten to note the numbers of his claim tags. He had to go through it all again...
...Costs. The bargain is the result of long and careful planning by a family team. Besides 34-year-old Carl, who is the company's only salesman, the team includes his 44-year-old sister Mildred who runs the office, his 53-year-old brother-in-law Sidney Winegrad who supervises production, and his father, septuagenarian Samuel, who set up the business in 1932 and now handles labor relations...
Kerosene & Garbage. For many years after the marriage, Tatyana visited her sister and brother-in-law at Tolstoy's estate, where she saw the still unchanneled "creative enthusiasm of a genius" sprouting wildly in all directions. Sometimes it was cabbages and bees; then it was Japanese pigs ("What snouts, what eccentricity of breed!" cried Tolstoy rapturously) -and so it went, taking in fir trees, coffee, chicory, homemade vodka, homemade butter...