Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between Louis and Champion Jim Braddock before the latter fights Max Schmeling next June. Braddock's contract with Madison Square Garden prohibits his defending his title before the Schmeling fight. Last week, Philadelphia's Promoter Herman Taylor explored a loophole in the agreement by offering Braddock a fat sum to fight for a no-decision fight with Louis-i. e., a fight in which Braddock's title would not be at stake. Madison Square Garden promptly protested that the champion had no right so to endanger his prestige...
...regular October choice of the organization, a special "book dividend" in the form of a Bible. Designed to be read for its literary interest rather than as divine revelation, the Book-of-the-Month Club's Bible, edited by Ernest Sutherland Bates, proved to be a fat, well-printed volume with wide margins, connected narrative passages and texts arranged in prose and poetic sequences rather than in the traditional numbered chapters and verses of the King James version...
...totally valueless so far as setting up any standards of merit is concerned. For plot-summaries and name, age, and habits of authors they have some worth. But it is notable that precisely never does either of them come out and annihilate a book that has been given a fat advertising appropriation by its publishers. The discrimination and intellectual honesty of these weekly "literary" magazines are totally incommensurable with their tremendous influence...
...mostly a waste product or burned as an inferior fuel in lumber mills. Of the sawdust 60% to 65% becomes sugar, 5% acetic acid, 30% lignin which again can be used to make charcoal or wallboard. The sugar can be converted into protein by treatment with yeast; into fat by feeding it to pigs. Dr. Bergius said last week that, "for the present," food-from-wood is being fed to animals; he avoided saying that if Germany gets into a tough war it will be fed to humans...
...confession magazine True Story, for which he claims the largest monthly newsstand circulation of any magazine on earth (total: 2,135,006), his detective magazines which feature pictures of real crooks and his "Women's Group" (True Romances, Love and Romance, True Experiences, Movie Mirror, Radio Mirror). So fat did the Macfadden fortune grow that in 1931 its proprietor was able to make the large but some-what vague gesture of organizing the charitable Bernarr Macfadden Foundation with the income from publishing properties which he described as "of the value of approximately...