Word: muskrat
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Boyd began his career in the early 1900s, selling typewriters. He later opened an office-supply business in Muskegon, Mich., and was that city's first Ford dealer. In 1928 he invested in the Mount Forest Fur Farms of America, which raised muskrats. The company went bankrupt in 1931. He helped reorganize the failed firm as Vermilion Bay, and the company struck it rich when oil and gas were later discovered on the Louisiana muskrat farm. Vermilion now collects royalties on 60,000 acres of land in Louisiana. Last year the company had profits of $1.6 million on sales...
...what's up front that viscerally counts. There are sizzling renditions of the Charleston, the black bottom and the cakewalk; the band lashes into Tiger Rag and Muskrat Ramble, and when the whole company belts out A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, the mercury leaves the thermometer...
...slow pace. His portrayal of the thief with the heart of gold never falters. When he accidentally discovers that the Brink's fortress is no more than a poorly protected warehouse of money waiting to be hit, he rushes out and buys his wife a 100 per cent muskrat coat to celebrate his upcoming...
Peter Falk, coming on like Groucho Marx doing an impersonation of Humphrey Bogart, makes the mangy most of his role as the gang's leader. A conniver with a heart of gold, he uses his loot to buy his wife (Gena Rowlands) a showy "100% muskrat" coat. As the gang's detonation expert, Warren Gates has a hell of a fine time: throughout the film he launches into deliriously obsessive speeches about imagined World War II combat adventures. The other principals, Peter Boyle, Paul Sorvino and Allen Goorwitz (the actor formerly known as Allen Gar field), all have...
...antitrappers gathered enough signatures to place the measure on the ballot. The proposal was defeated by voters in the state's rural areas. In the end, voters were swayed by the argument that the ban would cripple Ohio's $10 million-a-year fur industry (mostly muskrat...