Word: furred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nowadays, trapping is on the wane, a victim of the fake fur, depressed pelt prices, new roads and population growth. Such is the lure of the Alaskan wilderness, though, that perhaps 110 professional trappers are still at large. TIME's San Francisco Bureau Chief Jesse Birnbaum visited one of them, Missouri-born Joe Delia, 40, a tall, rugged woodsman with hard, spatulate fingers, a laughing face and an abiding love for the outdoors. Birnbaum's report...
...DELIA arrived in Alaska in 1948, worked for a while in Ketchikan, then drifted over to the Skwentna region, where he built a cabin and started trapping. Skwentna is good mixed-fur country-mink, marten, lynx, wolf, otter, beaver, muskrat. Fifteen years ago, trappers got good money for these pelts. Minks, for example, brought about $36 each; today Joe Delia is lucky to average $10. Lynxes, on the other hand, have improved. You can get $60 apiece-when you find one: the reproduction cycle has made this animal scarce...
...will get to go into Saks and watch a fluffy, fur-covered, fifty-year-old divorcee hand lots of green across the counter. The more she pays and the smaller her purchase, the happier we can be. That proves that she has almost conquered need for good. Just a little, ever so little more and it will be done. Ten million trillion zillion dollars for a jeweled silk-and-leather nail file case. Phew! We're almost there. Very soon we'll never need anything more ever again. We have solved necessity and in those very stores, the richest...
...Comportment rejects the legend that the North American Indian could not hold his firewater. More typically, he had to be coaxed at first even to sample it. A tribe would cautiously nominate its oldest-and therefore most expendable-member to take the first sip. Daniel Harmon, a 19th century fur trader whose journal is extensively quoted, reported that as often as not, alcohol had a tranquilizing effect on the Indian initiates. "I had rather have 50 drunken Indians in the fort," he wrote, "than five drunken [French] Canadians." Indeed, the wild and murderous debauches attributed to Indians can be readily...
...worry where his next oil well is coming from. At 43, he is a big bear of a man-6 ft. 3 in., 230 lbs.-with the hard blue eyes of a riverboat gambler. He has a strong _ fondness for the trappings of success: custom-built limousines with fur upholstery, nine airplanes, 3,000 pairs of cuff links (many of them solid gold) and homes in Denver, Hawaii, Palm Springs and Manhattan. His ranch outside Granby, Colo., encompasses 400 acres, has guesthouses that accommodate 120 people, a shooting gallery and a beauty parlor. What else could a man wish...