Word: fats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food shop, coolies carrying fat white sacks bulldozed their way through the crowd, their sweaty faces caked with flour dust. One man, who was emptyhanded, jumped onto the back of a little fellow lugging a full sack. They rolled together in the gutter. When an American photographer started to take a picture, a white-faced Chinese cried out: 'No, no. You must not. This is a disgrace...
...banana. "Sĩ señor, bananas. They are to cure dandruff. The pisco sits for a month, absorbing the dandruff-eliminating elements and the hair-restoring elements right out of the banana. That's camomile steeping in the next bottle. Cures malaria. If you want to get fat, you can have pisco from the strawberry bottle; if you want to get thin, pisco puro, solo [straight...
Last week, with the help of fat military contracts, Glenn L. Martin Co. got out of the red for the first time in two years (1948 loss: $16.7 million). President Martin told stockholders at the annual meeting that first-quarter profits were $402,643, contrasted with a net loss of $480,000 in the same quarter last year...
More serious Frenchmen also had their show last week. They flocked to view and sample the fat flitches of bacon, succulent sausages and juicy sides of pork on display at Paris' traditional Ham Fair, reopened for the first time since the war. One epicure, tasting an exhibit (below), demonstrated that there were at least some people left in the world who appreciated the importance of the finer things in life-the proper blending of spices and garlic in a sausage, for example...
...when he prepared to fly the Air Force's odd little Bell speedster. He took over the X-1 from a civilian test pilot, Chalmers ("Slick") Goodlin, who had flown the ominous little ship at Mach .8 (eight-tenths of the speed of sound). Goodlin was offered a fat reward (a rumored $150,000) for flying it at full speed, but he did not like the terms. Another civilian pilot had a try at the X-1 and hastily bowed out. Then the Air Force took charge and gave the job to Chuck Yeager, who did it in line...