Word: furness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bronx, Martin Frankel, a Dodge-Plymouth sales manager, was throwing in a mink stole, which he said was valued at $786, with each new-car purchase. The dealer got the idea when a wife refused to let her husband buy a new car because she wanted a fur coat instead...
...that multiplies rapidly (three to six offspring a year). The number of chinchilla raisers has multiplied almost as fast in the last few years. Former G.I.s, clerks and housewives bought the high-priced animals (up to $1,500 a pair) and raised chinchillas in the happy belief that the fur would take over part of the mink market and make them rich...
Breeders tried to blame the flop on the fact that too many inferior skins had been put on sale. Furriers offered less hope. One said that the fur does not wear well, is difficult to work and is too expensive. Said another: "In the old days you would sell those things to people who went to operas and horse shows, but today everybody wears sport clothes to the opera...
...Texas, arrested for forging a check to pay for a pair of cowboy boots, Jesse Smith explained: "The boots had been reduced from $38 to $32 and I just couldn't resist a bargain." The Background. In Dallas, Mrs. Chester Johnson, testifying that her husband had slashed her fur coat with a knife while she was wearing it, was asked where she got the coat, told the judge: "My husband asked the same question-he objected to another man giving me the coat and started slashing." Reward. In Louisville, Chester Fawbush helped foil a $1,400 robbery...
...Their fur was their undoing. At one time it sold for as high as $2,500 a pelt, and hunters slaughtered the sea otters...