Word: pelts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LORD DERBY meditatively, as His Majesty examines a sea-otter pelt priced at ?750 ($5,750) : ''I once had a sea-otter collar on an overcoat...
...journeyed last week some 70 fur buyers. At Hamburg, 20 miles from Wausau, is the 12,000-acre silver fox ranch of Fromm Bros., world's largest breeders of bright silver foxes. There last fortnight blond blue-eyed Edward Fromm auctioned off more than 7,500 silver fox pelts for some $540,000. Buyers, fur-capped and ear-muffed, enjoyed their junket. From the Hotel Wausau they took busses to the Hamburg ranch, found free drinks and bowling alleys, Wisconsin maidens serving kosher meats at the ranch clubhouse. Proceeds of the first sale ($200) were donated...
...into beaverless Pennsylvania had become a timber-destroying, field-flooding horde of 15,000, the State opened its first beaver trapping season in 31 years (TIME, March 12). By last week game officials had finished counting up results. Total catch was 6,408. At an average of $10 per pelt, they brought trappers some $60,000. No trapper was allowed to catch more than six and most obeyed the law. Biggest beaver caught weighed 71 lb. Catches were made in 50 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. Record haul (1,092) was in Potter County, smallest (1) in Beaver County...
...Nazi Jew flogging would be. Unquestionably, nothing is so diverting as brutally to mistreat a group of earnest, serious men who are giving their time and services in the cause of a humanitarian ideal. On the other hand it requires very little courage to heckle and boo and pelt grapefruit from the comforting security of the crowd, and clowning always draws approbation. The next logical step would be to overturn the hearse at a funeral amid shouts of laughter...
...forbid it, he would no more think of letting one of his "swilers" (sealers) crack a seal's skull on Sunday than he would think of failing to impose a 10? fine for any cut or tear in a seal "sculp" (fat-lined pelt) one of them brought in. He got his first schooling after he was 25 and rose to be Minister of Marine & Fisheries in his country's Cabinet. Three years after Appomattox he sailed out with the fleet from St. John's on his first seal hunt...