Word: furs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal taxes paid on all the telephone telegraph, cable and radio message; on all electrical energy for commercial consumption; on cigars, cigarets, and distilled spirits (to the extent that the commercial of these products is inevitable); on cameras, firearms, perfumes, fur-trimmed articles (costing over $75) and mechanical refrigeration-approximate number of taxes...
...comment: "The King is proud of her. Anyone bold enough to object to her being at the royal table would be quickly disgraced." In shipping $50,000 worth of this year's finest U. S. silver fox pelts to a "royal purchaser" in London last week, the Manhattan fur export firm's owner Julius Green hinted: "Some people take it for granted these silver foxes are a gift to Mrs. Simpson." Meanwhile Mr. Simpson was transferring his clothes from the Simpson flat to the Guards Club in London last week and Mrs. Simpson on October...
...curtain falls on this incredibly vulnerable political tableau with one beauteous young model mincing off stage in a barrel, accompanied by the sign IF THE NEW DEAL WINS. To illustrate IF THE NEW DEAL LOSES, the young Republicans produce a second model richly clad in evening gown and white fur cape...
...CLOAK OF MONKEY FUR - Julian Duguid-Apple ton-Century ($2.50). Costume piece by the author of Green Hell; a brisk, fast-moving but conventional novel dealing with an ill-fated expedition from Spain to South America...
...late U. S. citizens selling to Germany have been accepting part payment in so-called "Aski Marks." "Aski" is composed of the initial letters of Auslander Sonder Konto fur Inlandszahlungen, meaning "Foreign Special Accounts for Domestic Payments." In practice the "special" feature of Aski Marks has been that they were only released or unblocked for transactions which the Nazis consider "essential." Last week these were killed, so far as the U. S. is concerned, when Dr. Schacht completely suspended payments in Aski Marks. He also killed "Barter Marks." In the past more than 50% of all German-U. S. trade...