Word: furse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The high prices in recent years for furs, especially for muskrat, have resulted in a steady increase in the value of swamp land in many parts of the U. S. and in the rise of the new business of muskrat farming.
Dr. R. Prosser White, dermatologist to the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in England, has completed a careful study of the way in which eruptions on the skin are caused by poorly 'dyed furs. In the fur business it is necessary to dye fitch to represent sable, goat for bear, muskrat...
Europe is in the grip of wintry weather. At the end of the Paris season, when every one usually leaves the capital for the seaside in order to escape the heat, Parisiens are to be found dressed in topcoats and mufflers and Parisiennes are none too warm in furs.
Governor Allen, good Kansan and sponsor of the Kansas Industrial Court, was not so optimistic. He termed Russia " the industrial paradise of idleness." He found the peasants returning to the church; he found women wearing furs and jewels once more. But he declared that if American relief is stopped " 50...
Our hero thought that 400,000 square miles would do nicely. Quicker than thought he also obtained from Mr. Lenine ten billion tons of coal, five billion tons of platinum, eight billion tons of furs--the nice woolly kind, twenty billion tons of petroleum, et cetera, et cetera.