Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republic's Dictator Trujillo obliged. They sent pilots and mechanics to Costa Rica to keep government planes flying. To Nicaragua's Somoza, helping Costa Rica's leftwing, Communist-backed government was partly a matter of business. If Ulate won the war, Somoza stood to lose the fat profits of a business he had been running with the family of Costa Rica's ex-President Calderon Guardia. The business: selling Nicaraguan cattle in Costa Rica, contrary to the laws of both countries. On the other hand, Guatemala's mildly leftist President Juan Jose Arevalo was quite...
...have the same basic ingredients. This is Miranda's banquet-size recipe : take 1 Ib. of chile anch0,1 Ib. of chile mulato, 10 oz. of chile pasilla, ½ Ib. of baked tomatoes, ½ Ib. of baked sesame seed, 2 oz. of shelled peanuts browned in fat, 2 slices of French bread browned in fat, 2 oz. of toasted pumpkin seeds, 3½ oz. of shelled toasted almonds, ½Ib. of chocolate,1 teaspoon of black pepper, 4 or 5 cloves, ½ oz. of raisins, one clove of roasted garlic, one roasted onion...
...Despite fat profits, steel companies had not been able to set aside enough reserves to cover the $496 million spent on plant expansion last year...
...Fifth Avenue Bank of New York, a comparative newcomer only 73 years old. The new bank will be called the Bank of New York and Fifth Avenue. The deal, still to be approved by stockholders, caused a wild jump in the Fifth Avenue Bank's stock-and brought fat paper profits to its holders...
...many such jobs, Lord admits, Argentina will need U.S. help. By lavish spending, Argentina has pretty well used up its once fat foreign exchange hoard. For $5 wheat it now gets mostly I.O.U.s. Even the millions the U.S. is likely to spend in Argentina for ERP foodstuffs will help little, warns Lord, unless Argentina is allowed to buy U.S. machinery with it. "Steel," says he, "is the key to Argentina's program, and they will have...