Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women had clustered at the head of the table, huddling around a fat man in a blue business suit. The press agent with the mustache sat down next to me and sighed, and pointed to the fat man. "That's Captain Auten, the owner of the movie. He's very important." The Captain stood up, drummed on the table with the side of his hand, and told a joke about a castaway and six nurses on a desert island. The women laughed and one of them said "isn't he funny...
...October MacArthur's men entered the North Korean capital too late to catch this fat-faced Red leader, who calls himself...
...supervision of a rural midwife, according to the story now retold by Chicago's Dr. Theodore Van Dellen, a neighbor named Isom Enlow "happened by." Finding the newcomer blue with cold, Neighbor Enlow set matters to rights by pouring down the baby's throat some melted turkey fat, which he carried to lubricate...
...Department of Agriculture once advised chicken raisers to dose broiler pullets with the synthetic hormone stilbestrol. The drug stops the growth of ovaries in pullets, turns them into the fat, tender female equivalent of capons, which fetch a premium price...
...three machinist-blacksmiths and wagonmakers in 1900, Mack Trucks, Inc. made the first gas-driven bus (for sightseeing in Brooklyn's Prospect Park), the first motor-driven hook & ladder. Mack soon became the leader in the heavy truck industry; year after year its earnings were good, its dividends fat. But in 1949 the oldest truckmaker in the U.S. no longer seemed to be built like a Mack. Sales were well down from 1947's peacetime peak of $124 million, and the peak profits of $8.2 million had turned into a $3.9 million deficit...