Word: furs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them, captured them alive. Before long he was inventing and manufacturing traps to catch everything from English sparrows to bears. By 1919 he had a large factory in Trainer, Pa., made as many as 2,000,000 traps a year, grossed annually as much as $400,000. But the fur business in all its branches was hit hard by Depression. Last year he sold out to his only big competitor, Animal Trap Co. of Lititz, Pa., which began as an enterprise of the celebrated Oneida Community...
Writing in a cat magazine, Clyde E. Keeler, instructor in Ophthalmic Research, recently predicted that it was only a question of time before some one would come up with a cat which would be a blue-smoke color with black fur filmed with silver...
Yesterday a kitten attended the feline show of the Boston Cat Club. The animal was blue-smoke with black fur lined with silver...
Last week's fur story involved three of the most potent fur firms in the country: Eitingon Schild Fur Corp., whose $9,789,000 sales last year entitle it to the position of world's largest fur dealer; Balkan Importing Corp., New York office of the big Rumanian firm Pellimpex; and Alexander Bernstein Co., privately owned so that its figures are kept secret, but generally believed to be among New York's ten biggest. Some months ago Eitingon and Bernstein received shipments of furs worth $800,000 from Pellimpex, were aided by Balkan in selling them. Pouncing...
Adam Gimbel wanted to be an architect, but Gimbels have been storekeepers ever since 1842 when an earlier Gimbel started a trading post for fur trappers in Vincennes, Indiana. Adam went to Yale Architectural School for two years but he did not go into architecture. Instead, in 1915, he started to help keep the family stores. Storekeeper Horace Saks died in 1925, just after opening a store on Fifth Avenue and selling out to Gimbel Bros. Adam Gimbel's cousin Bernard made him president of Saks-Fifth Avenue. But after 17 years of storekeeping, handsome Storekeeper Adam Gimbel still...