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Last week was National Fur Week. But the biggest fur story did not come, as planned, from the furmen's expensive publicity outlets...
Last week's fur story involved three of the most potent fur firms in the country: Eitingon Schild Fur Corp., whose $9,789,000 sales last year entitle it to the position of world's largest fur dealer; Balkan Importing Corp., New York office of the big Rumanian firm Pellimpex; and Alexander Bernstein Co., privately owned so that its figures are kept secret, but generally believed to be among New York's ten biggest. Some months ago Eitingon and Bernstein received shipments of furs worth $800,000 from Pellimpex, were aided by Balkan in selling them. Pouncing...
...counterraid, for Washington had taken Dr. Fagg from Northwestern. A teacher of economics and law for 15 years-at Harvard, University of Southern California and the Institut fur Luftrecht in Konigsberg, Germany, as well as Northwestern-Dr. Fagg, a Wartime liver, founded and headed the Institute of Air Law in Chicago in 1929, became so authoritative an expert in his subject that the Federal Government drafted him as part-time legal adviser in 1934, later asked him to help revise the civil air regulations...
Outplayed the greater part of the game, Eliot managed to push over a touchdown late in the second quarter to de-fur the Rabbits 7-0. "Slugger" White, spark-plug of the Elephant attack, went over for the score on a 30-yard slash off tackle...
...much I saw lying there. Deomys, a lanky rat with hind legs like springs, came bounding past in pairs, their sleek orange fur glistening in the half-light, their white bellies immaculate as snow. Bundles of purplish fur bobbed up and down amongst the water weeds, every now and then appearing on open patches of mud and sand, balanced on their pale, stilt-like supports and long, naked tails. A marsh rat (Malacomys) has much to do as darkness falls, searching out likely feeding grounds, cleaning his dense woolly coat, preening his immense whiskers, and apparently fraternizing with his kind...