Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wheel of the Overland, joking with his pals and puffing on a corn-shuck cigarette as he drove up to the school corner. The pumpkinseed vendor lurched toward the road, shouted: "Viva Villa!" As the general raised a hand to salute, a ragged volley of rifle bullets riddled his fat body. He and one aide died instantly...
Moreover, a fat lean must accompany any mission because Iran will need some $650 million to do an adequate job. Much of this would come from concession royalties, internal loans, and more efficient tax collecting; but for the rest, Iran would depend on the United States...
...sticky evergreen that thrives in millions of acres of drought-stricken wasteland. Last winter, using a distilling apparatus made from junkheap parts, Duisberg showed how to turn the hardy bush into a palatable stock feed.* With one byproduct already available to increase the margin of profit (nordihydroguaiaretic acid, a fat preservative that brings $35 a lb.), he managed to develop another: a quick-drying varnish that is almost certain to be salable. Other promising plants on Duisberg's list...
...Louis Lurie thinks he can turn the brothers' troubles into opportunities. He likes the deal chiefly because of the Warners' 436 theaters, many of them on choice big-city corner lots, which he thinks he can sell off at a fat profit. Lurie, who has previously tried his hand at moviemaking with Sol Lesser, says the syndicate will keep movie production rolling on the Warner Bros, lot, also investigate the possibility of making films for TV. The whole deal, said Lurie, was so easy that it was set up by telephone (it must still be approved...
...Riviera (20th Century-Fox) is that rare Hollywood accomplishment, a cinemusical whose songs, dances and laughs sparkle as brightly as its Technicolor. Set among the lavish pleasures-scenic and feminine-of the French Riviera, the movie serves a fat double helping of Danny Kaye, playing both a brash U.S. entertainer and a debonair French hero whom women cannot resist...