Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stupidest piece of bureaucratic nonsense I ever heard of. The Sepoy mutiny in India (1857-59) started because some silly ass in the British army ordered the Mohammedan native troops (who could not eat pigs) to bite off the end of a cartridge which had been waterproofed with pig fat. This mutiny cost the lives of thousands of troops on both sides. I'm not suggesting that we are starting a second Sepoy mutiny, but I'd like to point out that a lot of trained technicians are not re-enlisting in the U.S. Army and Air Force...
Many of the experts responsible for advising CAB's five-man policy board argue that U.S. airlines are not so badly off as the operators claim, that the net operating income of previous years-a fat $224 million for 1955 and 1956-should carry the lines through any turbulence in 1957. Even this year, say the critics, U.S. domestic trunk lines will fly an estimated 41 million passengers, 10% more than the 1956 record, and enough to assure possibly a 20% return on investment v. the standard 8% return CAB considers "reasonable...
...publisher that "there is something about a Colt .44 beside the typewriter that inspires me," or that Miss Johnson won a spur from that loose-lipped but hard-writing outfit called the Western Writers of America, Inc., he may well suspect that he is in for a good fat slice from the gun-smoked hams of cowboy fiction-Zane Grey, William MacLeod Raine, or Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford...
...thief and is repulsed, while the gay thief pursues the sad niece and is repulsed. Elderly Lord Edgard wants peace and quiet; the youthful musician thrives on sound and activity. There are Dupont-Dufort pere and fils, who always dress alike--the father trim and intelligent, the son fat and dull-witted; and they fall into the hands of a pair of cops, who of course also dress alike...
...lineage are certainly kin to those of the great master of total piffle. Tanner's trade is boom-escapism; the preferred temperature for hatching one of his books is a Dow-Jones average of 500 or better. Satisfied holders of Auntie Mame can look forward to a fat stock dividend, which Tanner expects to declare on next spring's publishing list. Auntie Mame is going to Europe, though she will scarcely be an innocent abroad. Tentative title: Around the World with Auntie Mame...