Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jelly" in the Louisiana swamplands means a very fat woman. Many of Lead Belly's songs are in Lomax's excellent book, American Ballads and Folk Songs (Macmillan...
Consolidated also prints cigar box portraits. In its files are the fat Teutonic nudes of yesteryear, who, thinly veiled in gauze, lie languorously across a wolf's skin (Wolff's Choice), or step daintily into a mountain brook (The Lone Queen), or sedately duel with rapiers in a grove (El Duelo). Today Consolidated makes its money from more prosaic designs for cigars like La Palina. La Palina was originated by Sam Paley, father of President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System. The inside of every La Palina box is adorned with a picture of Mrs. Sam Paley...
They ran their fingers down the fat sums on General Electric's fat financial statement until they came to the figure $42,900,000, representing Genenal Electric's 4,292,964 shares of 6% cumulative special stock at par ($10). A little farther down the list they came upon the figure $2,047,000. representing G. E.'s sole remaining bond issue. Thereupon they voted to use their surplus cash to retire the bonds at $105 and the special stock at $11. G. E. special, issued in 1922-26 as a stock dividend on the common, will...
...Scott writhe in angry protest. Headlines were blacker, shallower. Inside were more and bigger pictures than Oregonian readers had ever seen. A banner headline glared across the sports page, and there were awful rumors that one might soon stream across Page One. Crowning horror was a Bible contest, with fat cash prizes and endorsement by local clergymen...
Before Denver & Rio Grande broke ground for the Dotsero Cutoff, it bought control of the Moffat Line. But the Interstate Commerce Commission required the Denver & Rio Grande to buy any or all minority stock offered for the same fat price paid for control. For these various undertakings Denver & Rio Grande needed RFC assistance, and in a deal which the New York Herald Tribune rated as "one of the most complicated and most involved in railroad history," Mr. Jones ended up with practically all of the Moffat stock in his bulging portfolio of collateral. To "keep in touch with the situation...