Word: stroock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 4,000 miles from Arequipa, Peru, where the fine under-hairs of the vicuña's fleece bring around $14 a pound, dwells Sylvan I. Stroock. His S. Stroock & Co., Inc. of New York is the leading U. S. manufacturer of rare expensive fabrics-camel's hair, llama, cashmere and vicuña, most costly of all these...
Last week a flashy Manhattan haberdasher, Marty Walker, had the "honor and distinction" of advertising that his was "the first concern in the entire world privileged to present MEN'S HEAVY-WEIGHT*OVERCOATS of the world's most precious fabric, 100% PURE STROOCK VICUÑA CLOTH." Broadway crowds stopped to gape at the model coat which 60 vicuñas died to make. One man actually ordered a coat. Price...
...These "Heavyweight Overcoats" are made from 35-ounce-per-yard cloth. Stroock & Co. has made a lightweight (20-oz.) vicuña cloth since...
...fund of $20,000 to be used for the publication of original research monographs, distinguished contributions to scholarship in the field of history, has been presented to Harvard University in memory of Robert Louis Stroock '27. The fund will bear the name of The Robert Louis Stroock Memorial...
Robert Louis Stroock prepared at Horace Manu School and received his A.B degree from Harvard College in 1927, cum laude in the field of History and Literature later he interested himself especially in the history of Greece, displaying remarkable enthusiasm and aptitude for original research. His death occurred on December 30, 1930, at New York City...