Word: furred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio's Cantonese, Professor Allen did a miracle. He brought with him an instrument which consisted of an ebonite stick to which were fastened two slips of gold leaf. It was an electroscope. This electroscope he rubbed with a piece of cat's fur and slowly waved over the hospital's cinder heap. By and by the gold leaf dropped. Professor Allen immediately sifted the indicated cinders and with a forceps picked up the lost tube of radium. It had been thrown into the furnace with dirty bandages, as he had suspected...
...miracle was, of course, plain physics, which has been used dozens of times to find lost radium. When Professor Allen rubbed his electroscope with the cat's fur he charged it with static electricity. Because radium gives off rays with electrical characteristics, when the electroscope approached the radium among the cinders, the rays affected the electrically charged gold leaf. Naturally, they separated...
Last week another company received resuscitation in this manner. Eitingon Schild Co., Inc. is the world's largest fur organization, has usually reaped big profits from pelt operations extending around the world. Last fall, however, when stocks crashed the fur market had its most violent decline in history, average drops ranging from 30% to 50%. The only skins unaffected were such blue-chip staples as the very fine white, silver, and cross fox, Russian sable, fisher. The cheap but U. S. favored raccoon temporarily maintained prices because of seasonal demand. Eitingon Schild's inventories had to be written...
Although the present company was formed by one Waldemar Eitingon and one Sol Schild, the Eitingons, descendants of potent fur traders for three generations, dominate the company. Before the War the Eitingons operated in Leipzig, New York and Moscow. The centre of their trading operations was Moscow Fur Trading Co., headed by Motty Eitingon. Imprisoned by the Bolshevik Government, Trader Eitingon escaped and reached New York in 1919, became president of Eitingon Schild...
...British army circles the fur headgear worn by Edward of Wales as Colonel of the Welsh Guards is known as a busby. Bearskin is a permissible but not popular term for the same article. Other regiments that sport a busby (or bearskin) are those of all the Footguards, Fusiliers, Hussars and Royal Horse Artillery. As the Prince of Wales is also Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Scots Fusiliers he is entitled to two busbies, each with different insignia...