Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These issues produce revolutionary types that must have the old bearded filibusteros spinning in their graves. Their headquarters are not in tents in the bush but in smart city clubs and luxurious suburban homes. A good example is General René Picado, defender of the Costa Rican government, a fat, jolly, ex-traveling salesman (Bauer & Black, surgical drugs) who for years told his stories up and down Central America. General René was so worried that a lot of the products of his ex-employer would have to be used in San Jose that he kept three holy candles (especially...
...slashed several rations. It was worse than the bleak wartime year of 1941. Then a Briton was allowed a shilling and a half's worth of meat a week; now, a shilling's worth. Then he got twelve ounces of sugar; now, eight. Then, eight ounces of fat; now, seven. Then, four ounces of bacon...
...history the Dominion Treasury had never known anything like it. Best guesses were for a $400 million surplus, double the figure forecast by experts only four months ago. The big surplus, plus the fact that 1948 will almost certainly be an election year, made another fat tax cut a sure thing...
William Saroyan, who also writes, prepared to send up another Saroyanesque rocket after a long, tense quiet. Out next fortnight: a new play (not yet produced), called Jim Dandy: Fat Man in a Famine. "The action takes place in a transparent egg shell," announced Publishers Harcourt, Brace in ventriloquial tones, "inside which are miserable and majestic ruins, representing immemorial and immediate reality...
...Jump. Now, at last, Big Jake Kramer is sitting pretty. It is no secret that he has had at least two juicy offers to turn professional. Bing Crosby Enterprises Inc. is dangling a fat guarantee, $35,000 for the first four months (or 35% of the take, whichever is larger), to get him to go gunning for Bobby Riggs. Another proposition comes from a Chicago promoter named Jack Harris, who says he will meet Crosby's offer and go higher. Harris also wants Schroeder and Pancho Segura as a supporting feature: Crosby prefers a second billing of ex-Lady...