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Stummel Snipers. In Germany, the cigaret had opened new vistas of financiering for both victor and vanquished. For a few cartons Americans could furnish their apartments, buy exquisite furs and Leica cameras. German workers found it more profitable to take their daily pay in a handful of cigarets than a...
Winner Hawks, 26, who used to model for fun and now for fun hunts game with sportsmen like Clark Gable and Ernest Hemingway (see col. 3), thought it was "awfully nice" to get picked, offered a partial explanation of her success: "I have a tall, skinny frame that clothes look...
The U.S. 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...
But 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...
But the fur industry knows that it is due to go through an economic wringer. Furriers made the most of the easy-money period during the war and immediately afterwards. When OPA controls came off, prices of luxury furs doubled; medium-priced furs went up 50%. The buying rush has...