Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next pre-sunup chore was an esthetic delight; it dealt with 20 top-quality Angus steers soon to be translated into dollars and cents at the Tennessee Fat Cattle Show. Joe snapped on the lights in the main barn, climbed into the loft and scooped measured feed mixtures into the chute leading to the cattle shed below...
...differs from the F.F.A. mainly in taking both boys and girls and in not being tied so directly to high school vocational agriculture). Joe, at the suggestion of his 4-H supervisor, bought a black steer, fed it for five months, and took it to the Nashville Fat Cattle Show, where it did badly. Back home, determined to do better, Joe bought a registered Duroc gilt, then set out to buy some good purebred cattle. He was on his way to a career as a farmer-but a glittering alternative beckoned, just as similarly glittering alternatives have beckoned other farm...
...Fat Lot of Fire. Between times, the delegates uncertainly considered the future. "Labor's afraid of prosperity," warned the miners' Sam Watson. "Maybe we did found the party out of bitterness and hardship, but those days are gone. Our task now is to learn to enjoy plenty." The party executive's best proposal was a three-year study to shape policy on specific problems. "That's a fat lot of fire to take home to the boys," grumbled one delegate. "Lump of suet dough, that's what I call...
...inflammation and causes the heart and the sac to adhere. When that happens, a richer supply of blood passes to the damaged heart through the walls of the sac. A large vein (the coronary sinus) is then tied to slow drainage from the heart, and a piece of fat in the heart sac is sewed to the heart surface in the hope that it will provide additional circulation...
DURING the greatest economic boom of all time, a new group of stockholders is sharing in the fat corporate profits. They are the U.S. workers who make the goods. Since World War II, plans to help employees buy stock have spread so fast that some 300 companies now have programs involving 2,000,000 salaried and production-line workers. This week General Motors announced the results of a poll on its plan for 112,000 salaried employees. Four out of every five eligible workers decided to invest up to 10% of their pay in G.M.'s future...