Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since I became a correspondent that I'd had such good luck." But Lubar has not always been so lucky. In Bombay in 1949, he managed to rent a comfortable apartment from a Moslem lady who had moved to England. Lubar soon began to receive fat, special-delivery letters from her, in which she complained about her domestic troubles. As the troubles mounted, the letters got thicker. Lubar read and answered them patiently, fearful that any break in the correspondence might put an end to his tenancy. Apparently this conduct satisfied the landlady. Lubar wasn...
...Independent Offices (e.g., the Federal Trade Commission, the President's office) during fiscal 1954. Last week a revised Independent Offices budget was approved by Chairman John Taber's House Appropriations Committee. After Taber and the Administration's own budget men had got through wringing the fat from it, figure was slimmed down to $451 million...
...President Weber W. Sebald said that his company is studying its price lists, and expects to make some upward adjustments soon. At a Miami convention of steel distributors, U.S. Steel's Chairman Ben Fairless referred to the "sub-competitive price" of steel, and said: "There's no fat left on our financial bones . . . Since 1940, U.S. Steel's employment costs have risen 155%. The cost of the goods and services we bought has increased by 138%. But the price of steel has gone up only...
...Russian newspaper readers, Madame Molotov's attempt to make soap from frog fat was a surefire joke. So was her 1936 visit (as Olga Karpovskaya) to New York and Washington, where she lunched with Eleanor Roosevelt and announced that Soviet men had gone back to using toilet water. The Pearl was soon promoted to the Ministry of Food Industry, Division of Fish. Years later, having thoroughly proved her incompetence, she was fired by a rising young party boss named Georgy Malenkov. "The crux of the matter," Stalin is said to have remarked, "is that too many fish are swimming...
...orderly fashion, deflation continued to melt away some of the economy's excess fat. The cost of living had dropped enough by last week to bring pay cuts, ranging from 1? to 3? an hour, for more than 2,000,000 workers, whose escalator contracts are tied to the cost of living. But most workers accepted the cut without protest...