Word: furred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of fur dealers, dressers, dyers, manufacturers, retailers and their employes throughout the land last week was National Fur Week. They did their best through Press, radio, cinema, window displays and fashion shows to make the rest of the U. S. aware of fur. anxious to own some. Warmish weather handicapped them in New York and other sections, but by the end of the week they felt they were off to a prosperous season. Fur men had other reasons for feeling cheerful last week.* They had begun 1933 with three bleak years behind them. Both manufacturers and retailers had swung...
...Mink fur, dark brown, deep, silky, lustrous, rates with silver fox as most popular all-round fur. It takes 75 to 100 pelts. which now average $5 to $20 apiece, to make a coat. With so rich a market in prospect, farmers have been trying to breed and raise mink for more than a decade. It has taken them that long to learn how. Not until this year have pen-raised pelts approached trapped pelts in quality...
...plot concerns the vagaries of a young man who has fallen in love with an efficient deride of the value of marriage. Her acceptance of a fur coat from his uncle puts her in his disfavor and he marries her sister, really a complicated situation, Like the Victorian hero, the sight of his former beloved married to his uncle (all of which comes in due course of events) sends him, not to Africa in quest of big game, but to South America on an engineering job. The death of his wife at home and of his uncle solve the situation...
When the late Alexander Berg, wealthy St. Louis fur dealer, was kidnapped in November 1931, his abductors forced him to sign a letter appointing one Paul A. Richards, St. Louis criminal lawyer, as go-between. To Lawyer Richards the kidnapped man was forced to send a promissory note for $50,000 to be converted into cash and paid to the abductors after Berg's release. Lawyer Richards went immediately to Berg's attorney, Morris Levinson, demanded $11,000 for his proposed services on behalf of the kidnapped man-$1,000 to be paid immediately, $10,000 when Berg...
Between Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia (Russian sphere of influence) lies the vast Inner Mongolian plateau, a flat wilderness of grass ruled by hairy, fur-clad Mongol princes under the nominal overlordship of China's Nanking Government. Last month from every corner of Chahar and Suiyuan Provinces the princes of Mongolia left their herds of horses, camels and sheep to ride toward the great Lama Temple at Bathahalak, 100 mi. north of Kweihwa. In a little valley they found it, an exquisite cluster of white Manchu buildings, gold-crested pinnacles, infested by bearded monks. They set up their fur yurts...