Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...empress, and Houston Junior Leaguers have learned that the only sure way to her is through the symphony. When "Miss Ima" starts her annual fund drive at her mansion on Lazy Lane, the Houston girls fall all over their pretty feet to help, and the result is usually a fat ($200,000) contribution to the orchestra's yearly budget. In her box at the symphony's opening night, she discreetly holds court, swathed in ermine...
...winter, with the chance at bigger discounts and trade-ins. And what the union seems to forget is that any greater profit for dealers who sell cars in the winter would have to come straight from the companies' own earnings. While G.M. and Ford have had fat earnings, Chrysler was barely running in the black last year, and the other companies were running...
Wall Street traders, who like nothing better than juicy extra dividends, stock splits and fat earnings reports, got their share of all three last week and bid stock prices up accordingly...
Leahy, an old associate of Wolfson, profited when Wolfson and friends bought working control of Washington's Capital Transit Co. for $20 a share, took over the company's fat $7,000,000 surplus, and in four years paid themselves more than $30 a share in dividends. In 1950 Leahy owned 4,700 Capital Transit shares. He declined to say whether he still owns them, but if he does, he has made upwards of $150,000 in dividends and an estimated $100,000 more in paper profits. Later he became a partner with Sam and Cecil Wolfson (Louis...
...Kiss from Lafayette. Whitman Specialist Allen serves a full-course literary meal, and he takes his time about it, but anyone who sits patiently at his table will leave it fat with facts. Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, near present-day Huntington, Long Island, in 1819, but was taken to Brooklyn at the age of three. His father was a good carpenter but a poor provider, who spouted Tom Paine to his eight children. Walt had a skimpy schooling, and the most dramatic event he later recalled from his childhood was the day Lafayette, on a triumphal visit...