Word: furs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delight of Dubkin's mother, who often remarked that "my darling son is going to the bats." When they returned in May, Dubkin was on hand to greet them. All were females and nearly all were gravid. Soon many of them had half-inch babies clinging to their fur...
...sort of hammock out of her tail membrane. Soon tiny white feet appeared; then a small white body and crumpled white wings. The young bat dropped into the hammock. When it gave a faint squeak, its mother picked it up with her teeth and attached it to the fur near one of her breasts. She turned herself upside down (right side up for a bat) and folded a wing around her offspring...
Hide Out. In The Pas, Man., Noreen Gareau missed out on competing for the honor of being queen of a trappers' festival because she was laid up with an allergy to fur...
...First Eleven. Once chinchilla was a prized fur, adorning the robes of kings and potentates. Annual world sales were as high as 78,000 skins in 1900. But gradually the mountains of South America, where the chinchilla lived, were swept almost clean, and the fur fell from fash ion. In 1923, an Anaconda mining engineer named Mathias Chapman captured eleven of the remaining wild chinchillas, brought them from the Andes to Southern California in an ice-cooled crate. He started breeding them and founded the domestic chinchilla industry. From his original eleven animals sprang virtually all the estimated...
...will the U.S. chinchilla population be big enough (estimated as high as 6,000,000) for pelting. No one knows what will happen to prices then. Breeders talk glowingly of $6,000 to $10,000 coats that will wear a lifetime, but many furriers disagree. They argue that the fur is so fragile that it would wear out in a year of constant use. And there is no market anyway. A few years ago, Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman tried for months to sell an $18,000 chinchilla coat, finally remade it into two stoles and sold them...