Word: pelt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Adolph Hans Schultz of Johns Hopkins reported last week. By personal count he found that men averaged 312 hairs on each square centimeter of scalp, 9 per sq. cm. of chest; gorillas 4.5 of chest, 307 of scalp. This indicated that clothes have not marred the human pelt...
...Siemel goes in after it, spear or bayonet in hand. That, he says-for he is a sportsman as well as a businessman-is the finest way to kill a tiger, in hand-to-claw combat. The spear or bayonet must be sharp enough to penetrate the thick, rubbery pelt through which no dog can bite; long enough so that an impaled tiger's claws cannot reach the hunter. The spot to aim for with the bayonet is the breast bone, a not-too-difficult mark after one has been charged by a tiger a few times and learns...
...were sold at fabulous prices until fur dealers in Prince Edward Island investigated, bought Charlie Dalton's business and 20 pairs of Charlie Dalton's foxes for $500,000. The highest price ever paid for a fox skin was $2,819 paid in 1911 for a black pelt from Dalton's ranch...
Chows. Red Cloud III, a male with a coarse pelt, bred in the U. S. by Mr. & Mrs. C. H. Quereaux, was named best of winners. Mrs. David Wagstaff's Ledgelands' Nyan Lok beat the other bitches...
Last week another company received resuscitation in this manner. Eitingon Schild Co., Inc. is the world's largest fur organization, has usually reaped big profits from pelt operations extending around the world. Last fall, however, when stocks crashed the fur market had its most violent decline in history, average drops ranging from 30% to 50%. The only skins unaffected were such blue-chip staples as the very fine white, silver, and cross fox, Russian sable, fisher. The cheap but U. S. favored raccoon temporarily maintained prices because of seasonal demand. Eitingon Schild's inventories had to be written...