Word: chinchilla
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...Boston's Bradford Hotel last week, some 14,500 people milled through a maze of cages, inspecting hundreds of fluffy little animals with faces like rabbits and tails like anemic squirrels. The animals were chinchillas; the occasion was the Eastern show of the National Chinchilla Breeders of America, a sort of Westmin ster Kennel Club for rodents and the trade association for one of the strangest businesses in the world...
Last year the nation's 8,600 U.S. chinchilla breeders did a total business of $10 million, selling live animals to each other and to newcomers in the game. Prices are high, ranging up to $1,500 a pair, and profits are good. But nobody will really know for another five years whether the animals are actually worth anything...
...Switched her brand to chinchilla...
...Rolls-Royce, reported the Post, and left in her Cadillac, basking in a sunburst of flashbulbs. When photographers bawled at her to count her diamond bracelets (she had made wonderful copy last year by losing one), she sweetly obliged. Said class-conscious PM: "She had on a chinchilla cape not worth a penny more than...
...LEGITIMATE FUR BREEDING LIVESTOCK IS NORMALLY VALUED AT ABOUT THREE TIMES PELT VALUE, WHICH MAKES CHINCHILLAS [TIME, APRIL 28] WORTH ABOUT THREE TIMES A VERY DEBATABLE $25 TO $30, WHICH IS A LONG WAY OFF [CURRENT PRICES]. BIG CHINCHILLA STOCK SELLING POINT IS THE PROMISE TO TAKE UP BUYER'S OFFSPRING AS PRODUCT AT A BIG PRICE, WHICH OF COURSE CAN CONTINUE ONLY AS LONG AS FRESH SUCKERS ARE AVAILABLE. WHEN THIS STOPS, THE BUBBLE BURSTS AS IT DID EVENTUALLY WHEN SAME RACKET WAS PLAYED IN CANADA BEFORE...