Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown from nearby Toledo, Jim Watson over the border from Indiana, Charles G. Dawes from Chicago, came trooping in. So did the Elephant's ladies, Alice Longworth from Cincinnati, Ruth Hanna [McCormick] Simms, now from New Mexico, Ruth Baker Pratt from New York. Crowds seethed in hotel lobbies. Fat men sweated in hotel rooms. Newshawks scuffled after rumors. Whiskey went down and fines went...
Reported in the U. S. last week was a new method of fattening pigs, developed and practiced in Russia. U. S. S. R. scientists discovered that drawing blood from pigs makes them fat. In experiments conducted by the Voronezh Meat Combine, 44 pigs were bled periodically and in amounts according to body weight. Thirty-two control pigs were given identical food, shelter and treatment, but no bleeding. After seven weeks the bled pigs had gained an average of 3 lb. more than the others, 30 of them were fat enough to be classed as lard pigs. Only...
...theory: bleeding pigs makes them lazy, hence less of their food energy goes for muscular needs, more into fat...
Biggest single publishing award open to aspiring authors is the fat old Atlantic Monthly's annual $10,000 prize. First and most famed beneficiary was Canada's Mazo de la Roche, whose Jalna won in 1927. Last week another woman writer was similarly enriched when Mrs. Winifred Mayne Van Etten, 34, of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, received the 1936 Atlantic prize for a novel called I Am the Fox, which the Atlantic Monthly Press will issue in August...
Still concentrating on big volume and low price, Container lost money that year, even more in 1932. Next year, however, prices rose enough to provide a small profit. Last year's fat earnings were made with prices of its basic products at only 65% of the 1926 figure...