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Sirs: TIME Nov. 13 outlines Fur Trade and Fur Farming Industry briefly, clearly. TIME does err in one particular, the price of select breeding mink. $300 a pair for breeding mink is reminiscent of the promotion days of fur farming when silver foxes sold for $5,000 a pair, frequently earning large dividends on the enormous investment. Today's prices of breeding stock based on fur value. Fur farmers today glad to get half the prices quoted by TIME for select Alaska, Quebec, Labrador mink. ROY D. HARMAN...
...which a herd stampedes through a valley, over a hill, across a beach and into the water, where Mala and his companions harpoon them. There are, also, less healthy exercises to be seen in Eskimo-lust, murder, polygamy. Mala makes the mistake of lending his wife to a Nordic fur-trader who gets her tipsy, rapes her and then allows her to shuffle off across the snow where his assistant shoots her under the pardonable delusion that she is a seal. For harpooning the fur-trader Mala becomes fair prey for two members of the Canadian Mounted Police. They inveigle...
...turned up two years ago in Hollywood to be a cameraman, joined the Van Dyke expedition as guide, photographed so well that Van Dyke decided to make him the hero. Most of the whites in the cast are members of Van Dyke's technical crew. The fur-trader is Peter Freuchen, who wrote the book on which Eskimo is based. Van Dyke himself is a police inspector. When he came back to Hollywood last spring with 600,000 feet of film, Director Van Dyke brought along a dozen Eskimos for interior sequences. They endured Hollywood for six months, hurried...
...Berlin nearly every kiosk blossomed with a poster of Der Marschall und der Gefreite. Onetime Gefreite (lance-corporal) Adolf Hitler was shown in Nazi uniform, Feldmarschall von Hindenburg in the sack suit of a President. Together they appealed to all Germany in giant capitals to KAMPFEN MIT UNS FUR FRIEDEN UND GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG! ("Battle with us for peace and equality!"). The great plebiscite decreed by Chancellor Hitler to vindicate his withdrawal of Germany from the Disarmament Conference and resignation from the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 23 et seq.) was on. Adolf Hitler, born an Austrian, was about to make good...
...least 84 individuals, 70 corporations and five labor organizations connected with $100,000,000 of U. S. fur business had no reason whatever to feel cheerful. They were indicted by the Federal Government in a sweeping drive to stamp out racketeering in the fur trade...