Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME Nov. 13 outlines Fur Trade and Fur Farming Industry briefly, clearly. TIME does err in one particular, the price of select breeding mink. $300 a pair for breeding mink is reminiscent of the promotion days of fur farming when silver foxes sold for $5,000 a pair, frequently earning large dividends on the enormous investment. Today's prices of breeding stock based on fur value. Fur farmers today glad to get half the prices quoted by TIME for select Alaska, Quebec, Labrador mink. ROY D. HARMAN...
...Virginia Silver Fox Farms Christiansburg...
...waiter, Bridgen received between 2 and $2.25 per quarter for three successive quarters, after which he was revarded approximately $12.25 for a scholarship, and $7.50 for wages. The total cost of an education in the 1650's ranged from $100 to $200, and was payable in silver and groceries...
...Stones Act of 1927 ever let go its artificial limitation of supply, owners of diamonds might be left high & dry. But although Americans are not hoarding precious stones, and cannot hoard the No. 1 precious metal, gold, there has been a large demand for the No. 2 precious metal, silver. Last week the price of silver on the Manhattan Commodities Exchange reached 40⅞?, the highest in three years. Of last year's world production of 160,000,000 oz., 102,000,000 oz. were mined by six U. S. companies (American Smelting & Refining, American Metal, U. S. Smelting...
Announcement of prizes to be awarded Freshman debaters this year was made Friday by Asa E. Phillips, Jr. '34, president of the Debating Council. The awards, given by T. Jefferson Coolidge to stimulate undergraduate interest in debating and public speaking, consist of six silver medals and a cash prize of $50, the former to be given to those taking part in the triangular debate with Yale and Princeton, and the latter to be given for the best speech delivered in the tryouts for this meet...