Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highs for the Roosevelt bull market when copper was upped ¼?per Ib. to 9½? by Phelps Dodge Corp. Anaconda Copper followed suit but Kennecott, presumably skeptical of the possibilities of maintaining a higher price with present demands, continued selling at the old level. ¶ Discounting fat Government orders for the next year, airplane stocks soared on the passing by the House of the record peacetime Army Appropriations Bill...
...bond holder, the traditional hedge is to buy stocks and real property. Ultimately such equities will rise in proportion as money is devalued. Columbia, for instance, has shown beyond cavil the wisdom of owning land. Not only have they milked their mid-town properties in Manhattan of fat yearly rents, but rising values have increased their original investment many fold. The trustees of Harvard should take a long thought about such forms of protection when they start investing their newly acquired millions...
...great iron gates of the Quai d'Orsay and up to the Premier's state apartments several times each week. Although known principally today as Paris' No. 1 Astrologer, M. Privat has behind him many years of working journalism. He is the author of a fat stack of works comprising his investigations of celebrated judicial cases, exotic crimes and the lives of statesmen he knew as a reporter. The incredible report which much of Paris now avidly believes is that Astrologer Privat assists Premier Laval from day to day in charting the course of the French Republic...
...wanted to leave his son a bank. Son William Henry Crocker began as a clerk, was made president ten years later. Meantime the bank had taken out a national charter, and for the next 40 years prospered exceedingly on the best West Coast accounts. In 1926 it gained more fat accounts by merging with First National...
Chief of old favorites for 20 years has been handsome, elegant General Mario Garcia ("The Beard") Menocal. now 70, longtime leader of the Conservatives (now the National Democrats). La Barba is beloved of back-country farmers because he was President in the glorious "time of the fat cows," during "the dance of the millions," (1919-21). when Cuban sugar sold for 22?. Of the millions he grafted then he has almost nothing left; his superb estate has fallen to ruins. Decrepit, distinguished, an old-fashioned leader, he was too weak this time to stump the country...