Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example of what the economy needs, Reuther pointed to a fat package of contract demands that he intends to put before the auto companies in April (TIME, Feb. 3). His plan to cut auto workers in on automakers' profits* (they would also be guaranteed an annual 3.9% raise), said Reuther, would channel "high-velocity dollars" to consumers-who would spend them fast-instead of to stockholders, who would salt them away. As Reuther sees it, in short, what's good for General Motors auto workers is good for the country...
Playhouse 90: As The Gentleman from Seventh Avenue, fat, Austrian-born Actor Walter Slezak, 55, had reached "that dangerous age." A warm, voluble Jewish immigrant, he had made a success of his garment business, but his private life was caught in a rusty presser. To get French toast for breakfast, he had to "make out a requisition" the night before; his teenage daughter dispatched him to a movie because "we've got to turn out the lights now and neck." And in the sanctity of his own rooms was a frumpish wife (Sylvia Sidney) who read psychology books, plastered...
EXECUTIVE FAT is melting off. An insurance-industry study of 10,000 businessmen in the 35-65 age bracket shows that 25% fewer are significantly overweight than the same number tested...
American Motors President George Romney, who has staked the future of his company on the small car, last week raked in a fat pot. In the first quarter (which ended Dec. 31) of its current fiscal year, American Motors had a net profit of $4,948,736 v. a loss of $2,994,613 in the same period a year ago. The first quarterly profit in two years was due to the upsurge in Rambler sales, which rose 35% over last year's first quarter as production climbed to 41,492 cars...
...musings of other mourners, the answer emerges. A gentle drunkard, Machek's brother-in-law, dreamily remembers how Stanislaw came to the U.S., how he became foreman in a knitting mill, fathered five daughters. Stella herself appears, a slut (or so it seems) newly married to a fat cloak-and-suiter. As details of her childhood come into focus, the reader approaches the shattered central figure of Stanislaw Machek...