Word: fitches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ready to join dog-owners in fervent gratitude to the Field Council and its researchers is many a fur-breeder. Distemper has often wiped out stocks of silver fox, ferret, fitch, mink, fisher. Preliminary experiments indicate that the Laidlaw-Dunkin treatment will be effective for these animals...
...Europe it is now customary to bless the hounds before the season's first hunt, often on St. Hubert's feast-day, Nov. 3. Not many U. S. Hunts have adopted the practice. This autumn the Washington Riding & Hunt Club got as blesser Very Rev. George Carl Fitch Bratenahl, the tall, bespectacled, scholarly Episcopal dean who spends most of his time overseeing the building of Washington Cathedral (TIME, May 9). Dean Bratenahl put on full vestments, was photographed giving the Church's solemn benediction to the yapping, scrambling hounds. Prayed he: "Brethren, we are gathered here...
Revenge. Most colorful of the 10?-cigaret men are President Reed of Larus & Brother (White Rolls) and Woodford Fitch Axton, burly president of Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. (Twenty Grand). Both grew up fighting the old tobacco trust, both, until recently, were heads of small independent companies producing chiefly pipe and chewing tobaccos. In the early days of the century when American Tobacco Co. was gobbling up independents in the South, William T. Reed was one of its bitterest foes. He used to hide in grocery store cracker barrels to get evidence against the Trust's agents...
...facts were revealed by trial of a suit against the Fokker company by Abercrombie & Fitch, swank Manhattan outfitters. Shortly after their arrival from Ireland in the Southern Cross, Sir Charles and his three companions trooped into Abercrombie's escorted by a Fokker pressagent. Silk pajamas at $15, shoes at $12, brushes, razors, etc. etc. were spread before them. Who would pay the bill-$1,299? The pressagent's answer was a wave of the hand. The Fokker company would see to that...
Institute of Paint & Varnish Research.Sc.D. Edwin Fitch Northrup, vice president...