Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the General Electric plant at Erie, Pa., to the New York Civil Air Patrol, to soldiers at Ft. Belvoir, Va., were discussing common, everyday problems of conduct. As a result of the TV promotion, the National Council's Department of the Church and Economic Life got a fat flood of requests for the kits, plans to distribute thousands by year...
Balanced Budget. Jamaica's moderate prosperity is new-found and self-made. Britain, whose absentee landlords drained fat profits from the place with regularity after the British routed the Spaniards* in 1655, did not grant Jamaica limited self-government until 1944. At that time the island was so run-down that a visiting British commissioner called it "a dung heap of physical abomination...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. strategists, the aircraft industry, fat with Government contracts, seemed the perfect target in the fight for a new round of wage increases (TIME, Feb. 2). They figured that the big planemakers, with the biggest backlogs in their history on the books, could easily pass along the extra wage cost. Last week the target was hit. In the first big strike of the year 12,000 members of the International Association of Machinists walked out of the Republic Aviation plant at Farmingdale, N.Y., and three smaller branches (including a guided missile plant). The company has $500 million in Government...
...quiz-show contagion has spread from the U.S. to just about every nation that boasts a TV transmitter. In Brazil contestants compete for as much as 45,000 cruzeiros ($675); in Italy it is possible to win a fat bundle of 5,000,000 lire ($8,000); in Britain a Pakistani college girl got ?1,024 ($2,867) for her knowledge of Chaucer. Mexican viewers of The 64,000 Peso ($5,120) Question were grumbling that the sponsor was asking impossible questions to avoid paying the jackpot, but finally a textile engineer named Jaime Olvera broke the bank by identifying...
...English tweeds, rolled up to Paris' fashionable Drouant-David Gallery in his chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. He stepped out to the cheers of admirers and the triumph of a spectacular one-man show. Even before the formal opening, all of Buffet's 26 oils had sold for fat prices. Across the Seine, a Left Bank gallery sold out its stock of 30 Buffet watercolors. Bernard Buffet's take for the week...