Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their continuing study of the new-style American business success-the fellow who has a fat Government contract in his hand and a tax lawyer at his elbow -a House subcommittee last week got an advanced lesson from a Chicago truck dealer named Morris Green. He told how to buy surplus property under one set of rules, get the rules changed, then sell the goods for a $425,000 profit...
Back at work again after a long spell of shattered nerves and canceled contracts, Cinemactress Judy Garland arrived for a month's stand in London's Palladium. Theater. To reporters who noted her plumpness, Judy had a ready reply: "I may be awfully fat, but I feel awfully good. I just want to get up in front of an audience again...
...slapped the finish, the dockers gaped. The time: 18:10.8, fastest 1,500 meters ever. It was a full 56 seconds better than the old A.A.U. record set by Jack Medica in 1936, and it bettered Furuhashi's world mark by a fat 8.2 seconds...
...stage of Du Pont's growth, the company could have concentrated on achieving dominance in the fields it then occupied. But Du Pont has been chary of monopoly, for it knows that any monopoly gets fat and lazy, obsoletes itself in time. Thus Du Pont, though it is one of the biggest U.S. paintmakers, yields first place to Sherwin-Williams. Union Carbide outsells Du Pont in the field of plastics. American Viscose outsells it in rayon. Black gunpowder (once Du Pont's prime product) is now so obsolete that the company, which formerly operated 25 black gunpowder plants...
Lieut. Commander Philip Queeg of the U.S.S. Caine, a four-piper destroyer converted to minesweeping, was a phony and misfit skipper. A pallid little man turning to fat, one of the low men in his Annapolis class, he could handle neither his ship, his officers nor his men. He was a martinet, a liar, a petty tyrant, and, when the chips were down in combat, a coward. On escort duty in the Pacific, all this became painfully obvious, even to a raw ensign like Willie Keith. When a typhoon hit the fleet in the Philippine Sea in December...