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...breeders' woes were echoed by fur retailers. In a season when fur sales should be booming, business was so slow that retail prices were being cut as much as 50%. One big reason for buyer resistance was the 20% federal...
...slump is not only in high-priced furs. In the Louisiana bayou country, where trappers sold $11 million worth of muskrat, raccoon, opossum and other cheap furs last year, there were few buyers as the 1948 trapping season opened. Fur dealers were still loaded up with last year's skins...
...gloom deepened as the fur auction season started last week in Manhattan. Even in the rarer types (e.g., Silverblumink) only half the pelts offered were sold; in the top quality dark ranch mink, prices were off 30 to 50% from last year...
Furriers were digging foxholes for a long bout with the buyers' strike. Manhattan's I. J. Fox, Inc., biggest U.S. fur retailer, canceled plans for four new New York City stores, decided instead to lease fur departments in smaller department stores all over the U.S. By plugging lower-priced furs, the company-like other furriers-hoped to make up in mass sales for the slump in its luxury coats...
...newcomer to Ivy League activities, Woolley served as a faculty member at Yale before turning to acting and the manufacture of quotable quotes. The fur-chinned actor relived some of his earlier days in one of the Hollywood "great composers series" epics, "Night...