Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just about everyone on Capitol Hill last week was a short-order cook with a favorite recipe for frying the fat out of Harry Truman's $71.6 billion budget.† The trouble was that most of the recipes were the old hit-or-miss kind handed down from grandmother's kitchen-take a chunk of executive expenditures, mix with a heaping tablespoon of Social Security appropriations and simmer until done...
Paul Douglas of Illinois, a liberal who is endowed with the heretical habit of favoring economy in Government, was still sniffing and measuring away. Without even touching the vast funds ticketed for national defense, he thought he detected $4 to $6.5 billion of possible fat: $100 million of general Government expenditures, $300 million in the VA, maybe $200 million in agriculture, $150 million in conservation programs, another $150 million in the Government-loan field, down to countless hundreds of thousands that could be saved by buying cheaper cars for Government officials and cheaper paper for Government clerks...
...usual, the biggest roll of fat was uncomfortably close to Congress' own waistline. The annual pork barrel-a dazzling and expensive array of highways, flood walls, harbor improvements, reclamation projects, new parks and buildings, and other enterprises designed principally to please a Congressman's or 'Senator's home-town constituents-would be the real test of the cooks' intentions...
...reviewing music for the Chicago Journal of Commerce. She had no musical training, but she knew what she liked and said so in quotable phrases, sometimes purple. The Journal lost her to Marshall Field's new Chicago Sun. In 1942 Bertie McCormick took her away with a fat boost in salary, which is now over...
...blood & thunder historical novel, Rodney could certainly have paid more attention than he did to the uneasy behaviour of his own sepoy infantrymen. They were badly upset by the rumor (true enough, in fact) that their rifle cartridges were greased with a mixture of beef and hog fat: by the sanctions of religion, the use of beef fat was mortal offense to the Hindus among them, hog fat to the Mohammedans. Fanatics and profiteers, princes and foreign agents were also working overtime to stir up the sepoys. By the time Savage had it all deciphered, it was too late...