Word: pelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They cited the case of Van Pelt v. US (Virginia, 1917) which said, "The Statute is violated, if the intent is to expose the woman to such influences as will naturally and inevitably so corrupt her mind and character as to lead to acts of sexual immorality...
...Chicago, the Santa of the merchants' State Street Council was paraded on a float into Soldier Field between the halves of a professional football game. A group of jeering teenagers began to pelt him with snowballs, hit him squarely in the face. As Santa exited, angrily shaking his fist, he moaned: "There's a dead spot in my popularity-I just found...
...does every year about this time, bronzed, husky Herbert A. Nieman was grading pelts on his silver fox farm near Hermansville, Mich. But this year pelting was different. Nieman, the biggest U.S. breeder of silver foxes, was almost ready to pelt out of the fox-breeding business for the next few years. Last spring he killed off 15,000 pups; this-season his kill (by electrocution) will be 30,000 more foxes. He will keep a small breeding stock of only 1,250 pairs for next year...
...reason for this year's big kill was a spectacular drop in the price of fox furs. Pelts that brought as much as $32 apiece before the war were selling this fall for as little as $12. Nieman, who figures it costs him about $30 to raise a fox to maturity, stood to lose $18 on each pelt he sold this year...
...switched their farms to mink, but Nieman did not think the shift worthwhile. Though mink are cheaper to raise (their feed costs from $10 to $14 a year), Herb Nieman thinks that mink will soon be overproduced, too. And mink raisers, who were getting as little as $11 a pelt (as against $20 last year), were wondering whether they will meet costs...