Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...membership in the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House. The Board of Trade long kept Cargill out because it was a corporation instead of the more clublike partnership the Board prefers. It was thus necessary for Cargill to clear its deals through other members, pay fat commissions. For similar reasons the Board of Trade tried to exclude Farmers National Grain Corp., biggest U. S. cooperative. Farmers National also got in after a fight...
...search for virility began only: 1) when Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Germany, after treating 62,500 gallons of urine, succeeded in crystallizing one two-thousandths of an ounce of male sex hormone called "androsterone"; 2) when Leopold Ruzicka of Switzerland manufactured a similar substance "testosterone" from the fat of sheep's wool (TIME, Sept...
...Many years ago F. Wallis Armstrong gave financial assistance to struggling John T. Dorrance. When John Dorrance formed Campbell Soup Co., the advertising agency of F. Wallis Armstrong Co. never had to worry about losing that fat account, though it did lose Philco Radio and Victor Talking Machine. Grown rich and weary, Mr. Armstrong last week sold out to Louis Ward Wheelock Jr., his easygoing, active, second-in-command, with two momentous results: The agency will now be named after its new owner and it will move to Philadelphia's midtown Lincoln-Liberty Building from its old offices...
Anthony Adverse was published June 26, 1933, with advance orders of 15,000 copies and the prestige of a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. It began to sell rapidly, sales reaching as high as 2,000 fat, 2¼-lb. copies a day. In that dark season of the book trade, when a novel that sold 5,000 copies could get on best-seller lists, Anthony Adverse became "the fastest selling book in American history," with sales reaching 235.000 copies in six months, 450,000 in one year. Author Hervey Allen bought a farm on the Eastern Shore...
...first book, Author Dinesen writes of the African landscape, its animals and people with the eye of a painter and a novelist: "The geographical position, and the height of the land combined to create a landscape that had not its like in all the world. There was no fat on it and no luxuriance anywhere; it was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet, like the strong and refined essence of a continent." The natives ("they were afraid of us more in the manner in which you are afraid of a sudden terrific noise, than as you are afraid...