Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dyers can now make a red fox fur look almost exactly like a genuine black one, once more valuable than silver. There is no way at present to duplicate the coat of a silver fox, whose long guard hair is blue for two inches closest to the body, black for the next half inch, white the outside half-inch and tipped with black. Dalton's foxes were fed on horsemeat, bread and milk, with occasional young calves. Modern ranch-bred silver foxes are fed cow's milk, with cream added for fat content when first weaned. Soon afterward...
Further excerpts: ". . . The old inventor had spread the tail of his frock coat like a sail and was in full flight toward the abyss of night. 'Do you mean to say,' shouted the saint as he caught up with him, 'that you actually don't want to enter heaven...
High on the skeleton tower of one of the new Houses, Mr. McCarthy has been catching rivets from Jim Maloney for many days. Fairly soon the new Buick will be paid for and the Missus can get a new spring coat. The foreman down below is enjoying a comfortable pipe between his rounds of inspection. Lots of work and more coming. Great stuff, these House Plans. If the company continues to make money this way there's no telling what new jobs might open...
...more than I can understand." No land but gold was Columbus' quest: from his first voyage he brought back little, promises of much more. On his first return to Spain he was made, according to previous agreement, High Admiral of Spain, Viceroy of the Indies, given a coat of arms,* his family raised forever to noble rank...
...pair of electrified plastrons (chest protectors), the whole connected by delicate thread-like wires. In place of the rubber tip on an ordinary foil, is a small metallic ball and spring. Wires run up the fencer's sleeves and out through an opening in the back of his coat, trail out behind him on the mat. When the positive tip of one foil strikes the negatively charged plastron of an adversary, a gong rings, and a touch is marked up on the Stab Register. Stabbing the floor, another foil blade or hilt, does not register. Inventor Massard insisted last...