Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murder rap on fish-eyed, elegantly tailored Charlie ("The Gentleman") Fischetti, one of Al Capone's top three heirs. And he hauled in Jack ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik, Al Capone's business brains, whenever he felt displeased with the look on Greasy Thumb's fat face-which was often...
Herman Hickman snarled at the fat bulldog, "That damn second half--couldn't do a thing right...
...industrialists, but I've never liked the system. I just believe the workingman should participate in the fruits of his labor." But he also feels it is the best way to make sure "the Journal will live ... If I leave it to a lot of trustees or fat boys in the front office . . . they won't care about it. It doesn't mean their life blood . . . their very bread and water. If I can inspire the employees, then I've got what no one else in the world has got and it will live...
...bottoms and automobile floorboards. It also had a bad name because it warped and split. Ottinger started as a jobber in plywood, devised new uses for it, cleaned up in the recession of 1921 by buying vast quantities of plywood at the bottom of the slump, selling for a fat profit on the rise...
Supplying money-making equipment to railroads is an old story to the Budd Co., which sold the first stainless steel streamliner, the Pioneer Zephyr, to the Burlington in 1934. Since World War II the company has sold some $115 million of railroad equipment, gained such a fat share of the market that it is now second only to Pullman as a railroad passenger-car builder. With the help of this booming sideline (Budd gets 83% of its revenue by making auto bodies, wheels, brakes), the company rolled up $137 million in sales for the first six months of 1950, boosted...