Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steep a descent for a President as to give the whole nation pause." In the House, Michigan's Republican Clare E. Hoffman accused the President of "using his ... office as his advertising agency," and retaining a monopoly. Circulated in Washington was the story that when offered a fat contract for a series of daily broadcasts. John Nance Garner had replied: "What Jack Garner thinks isn't worth a nickel and what the Vice President thinks is not for sale...
...Iron & Steel Institute estimated that the total for 1938 will be only $165,000,000. This figure seemed small when U. S. Steel Corp. last week announced that it was borrowing $50,000,000 in cash from ten New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago banks for construction purposes. But this fat sum was only to complete expansion already under way. The first new financing by "Big Steel" since 1929, it was made necessary by heavy payments for arrearage on preferred stock last year and by the obligation imposed by the undistributed profits tax to distribute most of Big Steel...
...wall refuses to tumble into the cellar. Outside, on Kosciusko Square, dozens of spectators gape at the crumbling magnificence that is about to be. John sees the trouble is that the cable is pulling at the side of a short but fat pillar which used to support the basketball floor...
...alright, boys!" he bellows at his men, motioning them to stand back. Then the truck strains again at the cable and the fat pillar is abruptly flipped on its side. Lusty cheers from the boys. Radiant pride on John's earthly face. "Okay, now we git do wall," he grits...
...land of Neverpresent there lived a goodly people, with herds of cattle, flocks of sheep and goats, and sties full of fat swine. Their streets were all paved with cobblestones, and each house had a white gate and was placed at least three feet from the next house. The soil rewarded the farmers' toil with rich crops; smoke poured from the chimneys of the factories all day and sometimes far into the night; stores, hospitals, and the rocket trucks ran with a maximum of efficient quiet...