Word: furred
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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...
...Socony-Vacuum found out what he meant. William C. Head, 50, of Brooklyn, paymaster of the company's barge line, confessed that over a period of 25 years he had stolen $300,000 by padding payrolls. The company got its next surprise when it found itself in the fur and chicken business. Paymaster Head had invested his stealings in the model Twin Brooks & Hudson Fur Farms near Bangor, Me. and Twin Brooks Poultry Farm. For his plant he had bought $30,000 worth of automobiles, constructed an $18,000 laboratory, dams, a series of modern buildings. He said...
Today a line of motor lorries stretches itself out over macadam highways. The occupants are clad warmly from head to foot, and some of the women wear fur coats. They can joke and sing because they have just had coffee and doughnuts provided them at the last town, and someone will look after them tonight. The procession of trucks, for which $100 each has been paid, is flanked by motorcycle troopers who will escort them to the next city, and there they will be feted and photographed. They call themselves the "Hunger Marchers...
...much more than a second team tester, even though the Nittany Lions have been pointing all their noses towards this contest. When the Bruins emerge from their lair to tackle the Elis, who appear to have been in complete hibernation so far, there is no doubt but that fur will fly in the 37th meeting of the two aggregations. Brown sees its first real chance of a victory over Yale since 1926, while the Blue players, on the other hand, realize that it is practically their last opportunity to snap out of the lethargy in which they have hitherto been...
...alphabetical only, fell upon Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn department store. For Abitibi was declared bankrupt, its transfer office closed, its shares stricken from the Big Board. Abitibi's troubles were only one storm-centre in the mightily troubled newsprint industry.- Another stock stricken last week was Oesterreichische Credit-Anstalt fur Handel und Gewerbe, the name of which will play an important part in all financial histories of the present era. Formed by imperial decree in 1855, this Rothschild bank became the most important commercial house in southeastern Europe. When a run began on it last year. Austria tried...