Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over a year, the U.S. fur industry has speculated about a strange new fur, a lustrous platinum mink with a soft blue overtone. Many a furrier was not certain whether it was a worthless freak or a Comstock lode for U.S. fur breeders...
Last week, weather-beaten, rawboned ranchers and plumpish, pale-faced fur buyers jampacked a downtown Manhattan show room to find the answer at the first auction of the new fur. After two tense hours, the answer was in. The new fur (trade name "Silverblu" platinum) had edged out Russian sable to become, for the nonce, the rarest, highest-priced fur in the world. The 2,500 pelts at auction had sold for $375,000. Cost of a silverblu coat...
...fur industry, now booming as seldom before, the prime significance of the auction was its evidence that the use of genetics to produce mink mutations had opened up a new and fantastically profitable line of business...
John Holmes Overton, Democratic Senator from Louisiana, denounced a contemplated new tax on fur coats, demanded exemption for styles costing under $150. "I'm not talking about the $2,000, $5,000, $10,000 fur garments," he said, "but I'm talking about those cheap little $200 fur coats these poor little working girls have to have as an absolutely necessary item to keep themselves warm as they go to war plants to make munitions...
...fountain was the speaker's son, like him small, wiry, sharp-eyed and swathed in a black cape with a ragged fur collar. The son reached into a pocket and brought out the dog tags-thin oval bits of metal in leather cases. The five men were proud of the trophies. Their story tumbled out in pidgin Eng lish learned 15 years ago when they worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad...