Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them worked on the principle of spraying dry ice or silver iodide into fat, moisture-laden clouds, forcing them to disgorge their watery vapors which fall as rain. The man behind the principle was an energetic, 69-year-old scientist named Dr. Irving Langmuir...
Vonnegut thumbed through fat books on crystallography. At last he spotted a promising compound: silver iodide. Its molecules do not resemble water molecules, but they build into crystals almost exactly like those...
Traders who had been scared out by the war were now being lured back by fat dividends (which were averaging 8% more than last year's), the prospects for a continuing business boom, and the likelihood of more inflation (see below). As Wall Street saw it, stocks which would rise in price with the general U.S. price level were the best hedge against inflation...
Said General Motors Corp. Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. last week: "A dividend increase at this time will help to keep [stockholders'] returns since the war more in line with the increased cost of living." G.M.'s contribution to the cause: a fat $2.50 extra dividend on top of its regular $1.50 quarterly payment. All told, G.M. stockholders will get $176 million for the quarter, of which $40 million will go to Du Pont, biggest G.M. stockholder. G.M. dividends this year already amount to $7 a share v. 1949's total payment...
...made the find. Later, they compared the hand with those of a number of American girl students who were taking part in the digging. "It was an exquisite piece of sculpture," Charbonneaux recalled. "But much more plump than their nervous modern hands. It looked more like that of our fat female Greek cook...