Word: fats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roundup. During Christmas week, police and plainclothesmen swarmed into De Walletjes and rounded up a collection of pimps with such names as Fat Rinus, Piglet and Harry the Greyhound, and madams like Mad Margareta, 58, who employs 30 girls in one house bordering a canal and owns five other brothels. "She is the capitalist of the district," said the police. The pimps and madams were accused of accepting hippen money (hip is Dutch slang for whore...
...fact that feedgrain prices are down. With feed cheap, ranchers have bred huge herds over the past two years. As the cattle went to market, prices dropped. But cattlemen are fat enough to ride out the storm, and nobody expects the break to be as rough as the one that shook the industry four years ago (TIME, May 7, 1956). Said President James L. Runyan of the Kansas City Stock Yards Co.: "Cattlemen don't like the situation, but they are able to stand it. It's not like periods in the past, when cattleman after cattleman went...
...Chick" Allyn already counts 40% of his profit from his business abroad, figures to up that ratio to 50% this year. Says he: "We're not going to compete with foreign producers just by yelling for tariffs. It's going to take hard work. If we get fat and lazy, we'll wind up a second-rate nation...
...lines of commerce spread out from Dayton, Ohio to seven plants and 500 offices in the U.S., and then out to an overseas empire on which the sun never sets: nine major plants strung from Europe to the Far East, sales offices in 121 nations. Sales were a fat $420 million in 1959, with an estimated profit of $18.9 million, best in N.C.R.'s 77-year history...
...religious subjects, which failed to interest Calvinist Amsterdam. Before his death, Rembrandt devoted 600 known drawings, 80 etchings and 160 paintings to Biblical subjects. Living with his common-law wife, Hendrickje Stoffels, and his ailing son Titus in a ghetto garret, pitied by some and scorned by others, the fat old man was working joyfully, devotedly and profoundly for the ages. Among his inspirations was the warm and simple faith of the Mennonites. who taught direct recourse to the Bible, and the mystical writings of Jacob Boehme, who constantly employed the symbolism of light for good and darkness for evil...