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Factoring in the U. S. grew up around the textile trade in the 19th Century, although the old British common law term was not used generally until Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes applied the word when he was in private practice. The textile industry, with its thousands of small, independent...
Back in Switzerland in 1528 he swanked it about Basle in furs and velvets, bought a fine house for his wife and family, then returned to England in 1530. As far as is known it was the Tudor tycoon Thomas Cromwell (whose portrait by Holbein now hangs in Manhattan'...
Said Duplessis: "We are going after the big shots who have been living the life of a king at the Government's expense for the last 30 years." He promised scandals about Government sales of poachers' confiscated furs, about unauthorized colonization projects, about "every department of the Government...
The common clothes moth, which goes under the full-dress name of Tineola bisselliella Hummel, is an oyster-colored insect with a wingspread of about ½ in. The larvae look like chestnut worms, eat furs, feathers and wool, spin translucent tubes in which they spend most of their time. They...
The Country Beyond (Twentieth Century-Fox) is a James Oliver Curwood story containing a great deal of snow and a large St. Bernard dog named Buck, which has appeared in Call of the Wild and Little Lord Fauntleroy. More restful to the eye & ear than most cinemanimals, easy-going Buck...