Word: furs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fur industry last week shook like a badly frightened rabbit. There was much to be frightened about. Retail fur prices were being cut generally from 25 to 50%. An auction of 25,000 ranch-raised mink brought prices 30% below those of last December, and only 60% of the pelts were sold. Prices of fox, hardest hit of furs, dropped so much at auctions that fox farmers were holding their pelts off the market...
...what knocked the breath clean out of fur men last week was the news that Manhattan's Motty Eitingon Inc., the nation's largest single operator in furs, had filed in bankruptcy, begged for a six months' moratorium on its obligations. Eitingon (rhymes with biting gone), who had come a cropper once before in furs (in 1932 he had to reorganize after a $7,500,000 loss) had got himself in trouble again for the same reason-overexpansion...
...originator of "Bonmouton," a beaver-like fur made by plasticizing sheep pelts, Eitingon had enthusiastically expanded, bought seven processing plants, talked of selling 15,000,000 mouton coats (from $100 to $200). But the processing took longer than anticipated and he found himself short of ready cash...
...quiet night in all precincts. Patrolman Francis De Feis shot at a fur thief in front of Brooklyn's Paramount, accidentally killed an elderly woman waiting for a trolley (and the United Nations never stirred). Longshoreman Willie May was ambushed and shot dead through the window of the men's room in the Four Leaf saloon on Henry Street (and the Moscow press did not even toss an adjective). Three liquor stores were held up, involving a total theft of $713 and one gold watch (the U.S. State Department did not so much as lift an eyebrow...
...button-down collars. "Mustn't forget the other thing either," he said to no one in particular, and reaching tenderly into the towel and sheet drawer, he came up triumphantly with a pint of whiskey. He eased this into the left hand pocket of the coat with the mousy fur collar. "All set," said...