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Not too long ago, the furrier was one of U.S. retailing's most endangered species. Badgered by conservationists, women began passing up their cherished minks, muskrats and marmots, settling instead for fake furs-or none at all. Then came the recession, and buyers began to balk at purchasing coats...
Now furs, and their dealers, are coming back. Industry-wide sales for 1975 are expected to reach their highest level (about $525 million) since the postwar boom 25 years ago. Fur sales have grown more dramatically this year than sales of any other kind of outerwear, and still astonished dealers...
Greater Sin. Why is the fur industry coming back? For one thing, foreign demand for American furs has increased, largely because the long decline of the U.S. dollar has made them cheaper and thus more attractive abroad. At home the fur revival partly reflects new developments on the price and...
The platypus population was severely threatened in the 1920s, Temple-Smith says, when poachers after the furs had hunted them down. Now, he says, streams as small as one meter across yield platypuses. "Even in dams and ponds with no streams feeding into them you find platypus in them," he...
Self-interest. Brezhnev, however, accompanied his words with a hearty clap on Simon's back-and other Soviet officials have shown in more concrete ways that they will not allow their anger to stand in the way of their self-interest. Since January, they have been signing deals with...