Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone did. Molly was duly sworn and forthwith broke out a batch of champagne. As the ladies sipped, the new officer let them in on a secret-she felt she was too fat and had decided to diet off her "Christmas blubber" before being measured for a uniform. But this, it became obvious, was only a technical delay. Her maid immediately began answering the telephone with the words: "Colonel Thayer's residence...
...Ernie Bevin had become too ill to carry on the burden of Britain's foreign affairs. And a barrage of criticism was hitting War Secretary John Strachey, who, as Minister of Food, had made a complete failure of the African groundnuts scheme, which was designed to get cooking fat for austerity Britain. Even the Labor government had to admit last week that the scheme had failed, at a dead loss to the British taxpayer of $109 million. There was no reason to believe that Strachey would be any better at getting guns than he had been at getting margarine...
...museum for Sao Paulo, a hundred child centers to provide free milk and medical care for youngsters in poorer districts all over Brazil. And he showed his competitors that undreamed-of revenues could be earned by convincing Brazilian businessmen that it paid to advertise. Always, he plowed the fat profits right back into his enterprises, which by last week had grown to an estimated $50 million value...
Newspapers can expect cutbacks of from 5% to 15% in the amount of paper they want this year. One reason is that Britain has more dollars to spend on newsprint from Canada, chief supplier of U.S. newspapers. A bigger reason is that U.S. newspapers have got so fat that they are now using 60% of the total world supply, v. only 44% before the war. And they are getting fatter...
Standing tall (6 ft. 2 ½ in.) at a Senate desk, his head thrust forward, he read from a fat, 55-page text before...