Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundreds of pictures with $49 cameras presented by Eastman Kodak, asked thousands of questions. Eagerly they pounced on every new idea or machine for farming. They talked and acted like alchemists expecting to find at almost any moment the secret formula for Iowa's golden bounty, for the fat grain bins and seven-foot stands of corn, for the prosperous farms and happy people. They could not believe that most Iowa farmers work their quarter sections (160 acres) by and for themselves...
...Northern Pacific Railroad, which had big timber tracts, turned up with control of 14% of the stock. He won a seat on the board, forced a change in the way the company was leasing its oil lands, later sold most of Ohio Match's holdings for a fat profit. Simon also moved in and got control of Harbor Plywood Corp. and Wesson Oil, is now going into the McCall publishing company. In each case, he calls his opera tions "a technical service to management," rarely fights for complete control unless the company scorns his ideas...
Revealing Rack. Lucrezia, his second wife, was running to fat, dull and fearful, a natural target for his abuse. Not Beatrice. As the papal prosecutor pieced it together, she decided to kill her father and persuaded mother Lucrezia and brother Giacomo to cooperate. Big, powerful Olimpio agreed to do the killing for his mistress and a messy job it was. The family explanation that Cenci had fallen to his death through a rickety balcony was too easily disproved, and even Pope Clement VIII refused to temper justice with mercy. Beatrice, Lucrezia and Giacomo all confessed, though modern justice might question...
Thomas, ex-U.S. Marine and onetime frogman, trained last winter by swimming in Puget Sound, downed gallons of milk and devoured pounds of steak and potatoes to build up his weight to a fat-padded 270 Ibs. Four times-like all of his fellow challengers-he tried the straits by swimming from Canada to the U.S., and gave up miles from shore...
...Singles championship in a breeze. Tony immediately began to toy with a couple of big ideas: now, maybe, he could afford to get married; now, if he could go on to add a Wimbledon title to his U.S. championship, he would be eligible for one of those fat pro contracts...