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Word: raccoons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 down, and it did not seem likely that dividends on the 6½% convertible preferred could be maintained. Since Goldman, Sachs underwrote this issue, and since Eitingon Schild's trouble was just that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fur Troubles | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan in a raccoon skin coat walking celestial streets of gold. However, to one conversant with undergraduate life such a mythical place would probably contain many of the subtleties that make a college training valuable: the whimsical breaking of windows, theatres, conversation, and other things of which, it is rumored, even the studious French...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT PRICE PARADISE | 2/14/1930 | See Source »

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