Word: pelt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beaver pelts were once standard wilderness money, accepted by Indians and whites at about $4 each. A prime pelt now brings up to $20. Best pelts, deep, lustrous, dark brown, come from Alaska, northeastern Canada, northeastern U. S. Pelts from states east of the Rocky Mountains, except Michigan and Wisconsin, are paler, worth from $4 to $12. Last week furriers were waiting to see the trophies of Edward Boop and other Pennsylvanians before they set a price...
...three bleak years behind them. Both manufacturers and retailers had swung into the year with stocks low. Trappers, discouraged by low prices, had cut down their output. U. S. women seemed possessed of an endless ability to make their old coats last one more year. In February sales of pelts to manufacturers and retailers had reached an all-time low of $1,408,000. Then came an upswing. In May pelt sales were $3,288,000, biggest month's total since October 1931. Road salesmen's summer orders were up 25% to 50%, August retail sales...
...elected they had to prove themselves entertainers, prepare an act to regale their fraternity brothers. Stod King and Zo Elliott wrote a song and when they did their act in Boston, the other Zets stopped pounding with their beer mugs, stopped moulding spongy biscuit-insides to pelt about the room. With King and Elliott they sang...
...Great Britain a musquash pelt is worth only about a shilling. Britons can get their furs more cheaply from the Continent. The British muskrat-fur industry, started after the War to employ ex-servicemen, has so languished that the animals have been turned loose upon the countryside. Though vegetarians, muskrats have been accused in Britain of devouring poultry and swine, of damming small streams and destroying the banks of the larger ones, of obstructing drainage and causing floods...
...20th Century husbands ever lay violent hands on their wives the comicstrip researcher will never discover it. By a curious chivalry of newspaper cartooning, neither Jiggs nor any other male may pelt, pummel or kick a female...