Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations! TIME and Henry Koerner have accomplished what television and news photographers have failed in doing over the years. You've taken a handsome man and made him look like a fat idiot...
Victory, But . . . Moving with the rubber-ball energy of a nimble fat man, Khrushchev mounted the red-draped platform opposite the power station. "Dear Comrades!" he cried, and launched into the usual speech of glowing praise. For writing "a glorious new page," the workers were decorated collectively, then and there, with the Order of Lenin. Reminding them that their handiwork was "the largest hydropower station in the world," Khrushchev boasted that "the Americans took over 20 years to build their largest hydropower station, Grand Coulee,"* while "our Soviet workers" needed only seven years for Kuibyshev. "That, comrades, is an outstanding...
Died. Thomas E. Wilson, 90, retired board chairman of Chicago's meatpacking Wilson & Co., Inc., who helped organize the American Meat Institute, the National Live Stock and Meat Board, and the World War II fat-salvage campaign; in Lake Forest...
This years-long struggle toward efficiency went little noticed during the fat times of the earlier 19503, when almost all producers were pouring and earning close to 100% capacity. But it was during the lean months of 1958 that the steel industry, led by U.S. Steel, demonstrated that it is no longer a cyclical industry of feast or famine. Steel can now operate profitably in slump periods when many another industry is forced into...
Gigi. Colette's slender novelette larded up with production values and brought forth as a big fat musical; but the show is saved by Cecil Beaton's fruitily fin de siecle sets and costumes-a cinemuseum of exquisite eyesores (TIME...