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...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...
...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...