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Word: furriers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police Protection. In Milwaukee, when Mrs. Helen Bohn complained that her furrier would not return her Silverblu mink to her, police arrested her for stealing the mink in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 25, 1950 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...trap him. Groggy and submissive, he was clamped into a cage, given a heart stimulant to counteract the drugs, 15 hours later was dead. By then, however, he was a public hero: the city park board refused to sell his carcass for $10,000 to a Washington, D.C. furrier; instead, he will be regally mounted in the zoo. Quick as a fox, and resourceful as a beaver, a local department store put leopard T-shirts on sale, sold more than 300 to the city's leopard-minded small fry in one afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Dead Hero | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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