Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truck gave the car a push. At 20 m.p.h., the engine coughed and then settled into a steady roar. At 140 m.p.h., Cobb shifted into second gear, into high at 240 m.p.h. About halfway down the 14 mile course he entered the measured mile. Cobb, a London fur-broker, had spent over $30,000 to try to break his own 1939 land-speed record (369.7 m.p.h...
...Come-on. Sagging fur sales caused Manhattan's Bonwit Teller store to try a new selling come-on. In full-page newspaper ads, it promised refunds to match any congressional reduction in the 20% fur tax before...
...Pooh-Bah of Pakistan, in whose austere person are combined the offices of Governor General, President of the Constituent Assembly and President of the Moslem League. With proper crustiness, Mohamed Ali Jinnah strode up the steps with his sister Fatima. He was wearing a white achkan (long coat), grey fur "Jinnah cap" and a monocle. The small crowd (5,000) shouted "Quaid-e-Azam Zindabad" (Long Live the Great Leader...
...proprietors (stockholders) heard the 30th governor, Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper, report: "The fall in net profits (from ?1,717,397, to ?1,068,803) is largely due to the sharp fall in inventory prices in the fur trade. . . . The directors anticipate . . . some further downward adjustment. . . ." But Sir Patrick was confident. The company, he said, was well on the way to re-establishing London's eminence in the world's fur markets; the future looked bright...
...public still thinks of the Bay in terms of the far north where bitter winters grow thick, smooth fur on Arctic foxes, mink, muskrats, fishers and beavers. But furs are not the company's only concern. Actually, the 15,000 trappers from whom, the company buys are a less valuable asset than the far greater number of Canadians to whom it sells through six large department stores and 15 smaller stores. Sir Patrick likes to tell how this came about...