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...offering coats made of every kind of fur, from buffalo, favored by post-Civil War tycoons, to collegiate raccoon. But sables for the ladies inspired the legends. On Black Friday of the 1929 crash, Gunther's delivered a $70,000 sable coat to a customer, needlessly worried about payment (the customer settled in 60 days). Later it sold a shopper two sable coats, one for herself and one for her sister. As a token of esteem, the shopper bought her maid a mink. The bill: $107,000. In 1949 Gunther's merged with an other old-line furrier...
Speaking to a joint meeting of four service clubs, Pusey said that although educational institutions are tax exempt, Harvard stands fifth on the 1958 Cambridge tax rolls with a payment of nearly...
...proclaiming, "Without Hitler we are nothing. With Hitler we shall be all!" Husky guards dragged the ex-Gauleiter to his feet to hear two verdicts: for a Polish Jew named Hersz Pianko, whose entire family of 63 persons was wiped out under Koch's rule, the judge ordered payment of one poignantly symbolic zloty (4?); for Koch, the verdict was death...
...feverish for a partnership in a liquor store. But all the Younger dreams revolve around the $10,000 insurance money that widowed Mother is to receive. When the fateful check arrives, Mother asks little Travis to count the zeros, and then plunks down $3,500 in part payment for a house in the suburbs-an all-white suburb, as it happens. After a thwarted Walter takes to drink, and lets his pregnant wife consult an abortionist, Mother Younger gives him the other $6,500 to prove his mettle. Poor Walter promptly gets fleeced as his partner skips town. After that...
There is no doubt that Michigan is in serious trouble. By the beginning of the year, it was in arrears on its payments to Michigan State and the University of Michigan, was behind on contractors' fees, and could not make its contributions toward the teachers' retirement fund. In mid-February the situation was momentarily eased by early payment of taxes by several corporations, but even then Williams continued to call the situation "critical...