Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although most doctors concede that excess fat is a factor in many illnesses, they disagree about its causes, relative danger, and effective control among 34 million overweight Americans. At Iowa State College last week, top U.S. obesity experts gathered to exchange the latest news about fat. Among the reports: ¶ Being overweight isn't so much of a health problem as most people think, said Dr. Ancel Keys, of the University of Minnesota. Insurance company statistics linking excessively high heart-disease fatalities to overweight do not mean that every chubby person must reduce, since fat and overweight...
...began last fall was duly reflected in the first crop of fourth-quarter earnings reports. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. reported a fourth-quarter net of $125,840,000, up $4,880,000 from third-quarter profits. For all of 1954 A.T. & T. showed a net of $480 million, a fat 12% above 1953's profits...
...whose chief exploit since quitting the bull ring was his fervent pursuit of much-chased Cinemactress Ava (The Barefoot Contessa) Gardner, it meant restoration to fame and fortune in one phenomenally fell stroke. News raced across Spain that Dominguín had won El Gordo ("the fat one"), the $1,125,000 first prize in the nation's biggest lottery of the year. To the press, Dominguín grandly announced that a million pesetas would go to the poor orphan lad who had pulled the fat one from the ticket basket. Sentimental Spaniards were deeply touched by this...
...nation's auto dealers, at first unable to keep up with orders for 1955 models (TIME, Dec. 13), last week found themselves in the middle of the midwinter seasonal slump. All over the U.S., car buyers were demanding, and getting, fat discounts. While cars were still selling well, dealers were hard put to keep up with the busy assembly lines...
Rude Awakening. In Mobile, Ala., Laborer Alexander Robinson, opening his eyes in the hospital after surgery for restoration of sight, spotted his wife, remarked amiably: "You sure have got fat in the last four years...