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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squirrel's tail. Largest supply lives in Bolivia, Peru & Chile at altitudes between 12,000 and 19,000 feet. Chinchillas live gregariously in rocky burrows, eat leaves and nuts. The prime fur is so dense that fleas and lice cannot penetrate it. Each hair is tipped with black, slate blue about half its length, merging into a delicate pearl grey. Difficult to capture alive, chinchillas are shot by Indians with blow-guns using poisoned darts. The wound is only a pinprick, does not injure the pelt. Price of each pelt may be as low as $50 for a coarse...
Year ago a disgusted Congress abolished the old Shipping Board and created a new U. S. Maritime Commission to wipe the slate clean and start afresh within one year. In the autumn, President Roosevelt appointed a temporary commission of two superannuated admirals and a man from the Treasury Department, but not immediately could he get the man he really wanted to do the job. After his brilliant performance launching SEC, a lot of people with big business headaches wanted Joseph Patrick Kennedy to be their Mr. Fixit. Paramount Pictures, Inc. paid him $50,000 for a drastic survey report. William...
...idea that the clean slate of the Varsity and Jayvee crews was not long to be preserved came when the Freshman crew received a decisive setback at the hands of the Navy Plebes. The same story was told in both preliminary races, where the Sailors jumped into a quick lead they never relinquished...
...whole cup full of the juice of."sour grapes." Apparently without making any effort whatever to check his story, you have printed a lengthy letter from James Backton of Hollywood, Calif., with regard to his arrest in Mississippi which does bitter injustice to the people of this expanding Southern Slate (TIME, April...
Voting 193 shares against the management's slate of directors, but not for Mr. Martin, was John J. Gilbert of Manhattan, younger brother of Lewis D. Gilbert, the nation's "No. 1 Minority Stockholder...