Word: fatten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...object of the deal was to put $3,500,000 into Consumers Power, which recently dedicated a new 35,000-kilowatt plant at Kalamazoo, is constructing a new 70,000-kilowatt plant in Bay City. This will fatten up the equity in Consumers Power in preparation for issuance of $28,500,000 in bonds ($10,000,000 for new money, $18,500,000 for refunding...
Last week Jack Frye, worried about his growing waistline, announced a deal that will fatten his airline: the purchase for $350,000 of Marquette Airlines which (when Civil Aeronautics Authority approves) will give TWA a closely knit 565-mile feeder system in the heart of rich midwest traffic territory...
...Chicago, which last month hit a five-year low ($6.02½ per cwt.) will not feel the 1939 crop until this fall when pigs farrowed this spring begin to go to slaughter. Chief beneficiaries of the booming pig population: the corn farmers, 40% of whose product will go to fatten hogs for a glutted pork market. But their returns are not likely to be handsome. For 1939 nature has been bountiful beyond New Deal rules and a large crop of 2,518,000,000 bushels is forecast. Thus, while pigs in increasing numbers eat corn, corn (currently selling in Chicago...
Married. Helen Beall Houston, daughter of President David Franklin Houston of Mutual Life Insurance Co.; and Robert Caldwell Fatten; in Cold Spring Harbor...
...employes, print its record. Not a single Senator opposed this graceful fadeout. Senator Connally temperately limited himself to declaiming: "The burglar who breaks into a house at night doesn't believe in private rights or security. The jackal or the hyena that invades a cemetery to fatten its own body by digging up the dead does not believe in the sanctity of the tomb. . . . Let [the Nye committee] come out of the cemeteries and catacombs and get out in the daylight...