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Reason for the slide was the news that Britain would tighten her controls over foreign exchange. Late last month her new rules went into effect. No Briton can now export rubber, tin, Scotch whiskey, jute or furs to the U. S. unless he is paid either 1) in dollars, or...
Badly needing U.S. heavy machinery, machine tools, molybdenum, steel sheets, etc. Russia has been regarded as a good customer by U.S. exporters, has paid them $566,000,000 (mostly cash on the line) in the last ten years. Henry Ford alone has made $20,000,000 of sales to Russia...
Meanwhile a determined young woman hustled out of her third-row seat and trailing her foxy furs, headed backstage. She was, as most of the audience knowingly noted, darkling Elaine Barrie, the lipsticky, 25-year-old tyro-wife whom 57-year-old John had spanked out of My Dear Children...
Simple as a Hungarian peasant, beauteous, fun-loving, slenderized Ilona Massey is unspoiled, despite pounds of jewelry and dozens of furs lavished on her by ardent admirers. She likes to wear them to Hollywood hot spots, but she also scrubs her own garage floor on all fours. Blue-eyed and...
Wealthy Britons seemed to be splurging last week on Christmas furs and jewels, "partly as investments," shopkeepers thought.