Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major in World War I, then a successful writer of westerns (one Hoyt hero: a buckaroo with a revolving glass eyeball). He joined the Portland Oregonian in 1926, in twelve years rose from copyreader to publisher. In 1946 the Denver Post's owners hired him away on a fat, longtime contract...
...Manhattan's National City Bank's ex-Chairman Charles E. Mitchell and associates were forced to repay the bank $1,800,000 because of fat bonuses paid to management. Pomerantz...
...named Frank Harrold, who runs the entire sales promotion department of the Coca-Cola Export Corp. with the help of only two assistants, a few stenographers, and what amounts to a commuter's ticket on all the world's airlines. Harrold has developed a green kit containing fat instruction books, slide films, records, etc. Even a man with a stammer and an inferiority complex can become a dynamic lecturer. Sample instruction for a salesmen's meeting...
Despite his own pro-Russian opinions, Todd sends dispatches to Tass headquarters in New York (for relay to Moscow) that are as factual as any Associated Press report; the Russian dressing is added later. At least once a day, he also mails a fat envelope to Tass. Todd, who has visited Russia three times but cannot read Russian, professes not to know which of his stories are printed in Pravda and other Soviet newspapers, or what changes are made...
...market was getting its biggest boost from the reports of fat corporate earnings (see above), even though many stockholders complained that management was hanging on to too much cash and not passing out a big enough share of the profits in dividends. Nevertheless, the profit news itself was so good that the market kept edging up with determination. It closed the week by breaking all previous 1950 high marks for the third time in six days. At 217.03, the Dow-Jones industrial average was the highest it had been since Sept...