Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Federal Communications Commission began a public investigation of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. last spring, a prime charge against the big telephone monopoly was that its long-distance call profits were too fat. Ever since 1926, however, A. T. & T. has found that profits spring from volume rather than high rates. Last week it reduced long-distance rates for the seventh time in ten years...
...platform appearances in Illinois and Missouri. In Springfield he paid a duty call at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. In St. Louis he obeyed another political tradition by publicly kissing a baby, 17-month old Joyce Rushing, daughter of a Carterville, Ill. barber, and exclaiming, "My, what a fine, fat baby...
...Soon the rival Star-Times, which once had an option on the contest itself, and Post-Dispatch began to hint that the contest was unfair. Finally two St. Louisans tied for first prize, won $6,000 each. Then Missouri's Attorney General cracked down, brought suit against the fat, frightened Globe-Democrat on the ground that "Famous Names" was no contest of skill but simply a public gambling device...
...defending himself, Sir Christopher Bullock made the startling statement that the Chairman of Imperial Airways gets $10,000 per year, while the Permanent Secretary of the Air Ministry gets $15,000. This disclosure jarred the conventional belief of Britons that their Civil Servants are "poorly paid," and constantly get fat offers from British business which they nearly always refuse because of their loyalty to public service. Sir Christopher maintained that if he had succeeded Sir Eric as Chairman of Imperial Airways it would have been at a salary step-down of $5,000 per year...
...dusty roads of Lusitania Spanish peasants last week saw a sight that white men had not seen in 450 years: Moorish tribesmen, bearded and burnoosed, swinging their long brass-mounted rifles on the way to fight in Spain. News of the march caused grim chuckles to a ginger-bearded fat gentleman on the Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Abdel Krim, Rif chieftain who mocked the armies of Spain for six years until French intervention in 1925 brought about his defeat & exile, knew last week that his own Rif tribesmen were being rearmed by the very officers they...