Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whys could better be explained on such grounds as these: 1) In 1952 California gave some semblance of partisanship to its primary ballots by requiring that cross-filing candidates be identified by party. While Republicans waxed fat on well-tried personalities, the Democrats skillfully rebuilt a party machine to take advantage of the challenge. 2) The Democratic tide is running in California as it is elsewhere around the U.S. 3) Recession and general uneasiness over world affairs stirred a protest vote of sorts. 4) Republicans were split and confused by sub-rosa battling between Knowland and Knight factions...
...cooperation of unions in cutting expenses and overtime, is now putting out the paper with 3,000 fewer man-hours per week than before the recession. In San Antonio the Express Publishing Co., owner of the morning Express and afternoon News, combined the two Saturday papers into one fat morning Express-News. Few newspapers are hiring; few are even replacing newsmen who quit. As a result, only 50 of some 600 International News Service newsmen, photographers and technicians dropped after the merger of INS with United Press to form United Press International (TIME, June 2) have found new jobs...
...produced one of the first cold cereals-Grape Nuts. He formed the Postum Cereal Co., plugged his two products as cure-alls for appendicitis, dyspepsia and other ailments. Some magazines balked at his flamboyant advertising, but Post became the foremost advertiser of his day, and the Postum Co. grew fat...
...recession has taught many a U.S. company one important fact: the boom had larded corporate muscle with fat. Now, in working off the fat, businessmen are finding some of the benefits of adversity. These go far beyond merely trimming payrolls and such obvious economies as light, telephone and office-supply bills. Each day the recession continues, business must look harder at its policies, products, production, and-most of all-sales executive talent. "In a boom, it's hard to pick smart young executives," said one corporate boss. "Everyone looks good because the business comes in anyway...
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 siècle sets and costumes-a cinemuseum of exquisite eyesores (TIME...