Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ward's is capitalized at $115,000, has a current inventory close to $300,000. Gross business for 1936 up to last week was about $200,000. Until this year no profit ever showed on the books because surplus cash was promptly plowed back into stock, frequently for rare items which might be called for only once in a decade. Turnover in some lines is extremely slow. Not long ago the company sold a crane skeleton which it had had for 50 years and which still bore a label written by William Hornaday. A skeleton of the extinct passenger...
...animal kingdom from protozone [sic] to mammal as soon as possible." For a moth-proofing company Ward's made up salesmen's display kit's showing the growth stages of moths and how they eat fabric. The research laboratories of General Electric and Westinghouse buy rare minerals. Amateur lapidaries order rough masses of aquamarine, rose quartz, agate...
First Edition of Adolf Hitler's Celebrated Mein Kampf ("My Battle"), including the extremely rare first volume, which presents passages and statements which were suppressed in later printings...
...read a piquant item in the catalog in which swank American Art Association Anderson Galleries last week were describing parcels to be auctioned in Manhattan Dec. 9 & 10. Special clients who were permitted to pore through these early editions of Herr Hitler's Battle found many another rare bit of the Leader's wishful anthropology, since suppressed, revised or left out in translation. Samples...
...requisites makes a beautiful actress a Star. Marlene Dietrich is not so good a tragedienne as Greta Garbo. She is inferior as a fashion plate to Constance Bennett, and less potent at the box office than Shirley Temple. What they are not she is-the ultimate refinement of a rare and delicate artifact, the distilled essence of a Movie Actress. Extremely commonplace is the background of Mary Magdalene von Losch, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Dec. 27, 1904. Her father, Edward von Losch, lieutenant in a regiment of Prussian Grenadiers, was stationed there. In 1915 von Losch...