Word: furred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portrait of himself on the wall, sniffed tentatively and dissolved into tears on the ever-ready shoulder of Toastmaster George Jessel. Jessel, whose tear threshold is lower still, joined sympathetically in the sobs: "I can stand to see a woman cry-that can be fixed by a new fur coat...
More frontier adventure is packed into the corporate history of the Hudson's Bay Co. than into all of Kenneth Roberts' novels. In the course of its 292 years existence, "the Bay" has fought shooting wars with the French over fur trapping in Eastern Canada, and tussled with the U.S. over the Oregon Territory. To look at the remodeled Winnipeg warehouse that is the company's operating headquarters, or to listen to its board of directors ceremoniously called to order in London as ''the Annual General Court of the Governor and Company of Adventurers...
...sold off most of its vast landholdings to the fledgling government of Canada 93 years ago, the company went steadily downhill until arrogant, able Philip Alfred Chester took over as general manager in 1931. By the time he retired in 1959, Chester had converted the Bay from a mere fur trader into Canada's third largest retailer.* There are now big Bay department stores in Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria, as well as 33 smaller "Bay Stores" in cities under 30,000 population, 185 "Northern Stores'' in upcountry towns, and 30 trading outposts...
...years ago, Murray moved the Bay into Eastern Canada's large cities by merging with the ten-store Henry Morgan & Co., Ltd. retail chain. The Bay also has a network of 16 wholesale houses, oil and gas rights on more than 15 million acres in central Canada, lucrative fur auction houses in New York, Montreal and London, and a tidy U.S.. Canadian and British business in a connoisseur's Scotch whisky modestly called "Best Procurable.'' The Bay's profits last year were an alltime high of $8,893,000 on record gross revenue...
Survival Test. So sharply has the Bay changed that when Chester wanted to give his protégé Murray the toughest training the company could offer, he did not send him to the Arctic to deal with the Eskimos, but down to the New York fur auction to see how he would survive among the Seventh Avenue furriers. Murray succeeded so well that today the Bay's New York fur auction is the world's largest; ironically, though, it handles no wild fur-only tame, ranch-bred varieties...