Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vice resort. He started dog-racing. He developed his liquor trade in every direction. When men got in his way, his hirelings shot them down. A famed Capone saying: "It's bootleg when it's on the trucks but when your host hands it to you on 'a silver tray, it's hospitality...
Thousands of sharp-nosed, furry little animals slept more safely in snug pens throughout the eastern U. S. when, last week, one Alfred Findlay and one John Merritt were caught by police, who believe them the most enterprising and systematic silver fox thieves in the land. They will be charged with raiding the Hampshire silver black fox farm in Williamsburg, Mass. From other farms in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine they are believed to have stolen not less than $100,000 worth of pelts-slipping into the pens by night with flashlights, clubbing the wide-eyed little animals...
...silver fox farms in the world, many are in England, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Japan, Russia. But most successful silver fox farming is done in the U. S. and in Canada, where it was started in 1879 by young Charlie Dalton, now Sir Charles Dalton, 80, onetime Cabinet Minister of Prince Edward Island Government. On Prince Edward Island, off the coast of New Brunswick, Charlie Dalton lived near Nail Pond, a wild region abounding in game. Like all oldtime fox trappers, Charlie Dalton was anxious to catch a "nigger"-not a black fox but a "red" fox preternaturally dark...
Dyers can now make a red fox fur look almost exactly like a genuine black one, once more valuable than silver. There is no way at present to duplicate the coat of a silver fox, whose long guard hair is blue for two inches closest to the body, black for the next half inch, white the outside half-inch and tipped with black. Dalton's foxes were fed on horsemeat, bread and milk, with occasional young calves. Modern ranch-bred silver foxes are fed cow's milk, with cream added for fat content when first weaned. Soon afterward...
Questioned about the problem of catering to the tastes of the vast cinema audiences, Alstock remarked, "30,000,000 people patronize the silver screen every week now, an increase of 10,000,000 in two years, and it is expected that the total will jump to 40,000,000 in the near future. I feel sure that theatres will soon discover the need for specialization, some offering the type of film seen nowadays, some showing comedies exclusively, and others presenting intellectual 'life problem' films...