Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinchilla breeders cherish their charges, sometimes pampering them with special food pellets and air-conditioning systems. But the market is risky. It takes about 150 pelts to make one full-length coat. Until pelts fall far below the present price of live chinchillas, furriers are not interested. Manhattan's I. J. Fox made up one coat, which it priced at $25,000. That coat is still unsold, says I. J. Fox: "We got a lot of publicity out of it. You can have it for next to nothing...
...kept their bargain on Conference news, letting copy marked "CFM" go through uncensored. A few correspondents had let their wishes father the thought that restrictions might be lifted for good. But Stalin had made it pretty plain that when the show was over in Moscow, the curtain would fall again...
Instead of supporting prices when they fall below parity, the Department had started supporting them above parity in the fear that they would drop below. On this reasoning, it had bought $100,000,000 worth of potatoes last year, of which it recouped $20,000,000 by sales to distillers. The rest were taken off the market and allowed to rot to keep the price above the guaranteed support levels. A month ago, the Department bought nearly $1,000,000 worth of turkeys and took them off the market, though turkeys are well above parity...
Died. Charles H. Treat, 47, onetime (1922) All-America Princeton tackle whose robust health was ravaged by incurable tuberculosis; from a presumably suicidal fall from a ninth-floor hotel window; in Kansas City...
...cause of the jam, naturally, is a shortage of liners. Only 13 are now in transatlantic operation v. 73 in 1938. Only two of the 13-the 2,314-passenger Queen Elizabeth and the 1,050-passenger America* are large luxury liners. Seven more liners will be added by fall, including the Mauretania (1,153 passengers) this week and the Queen Mary this summer. By year's end 24 will be sailing. Even so, capacity will be far under prewar. U.S. lines, which alone could accommodate 56,515 prewar, now have room for less than...