Word: fatten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither major political party would like anything better in this election year than to present itself as the only true friend of the U.S. taxpayer. Republicans are painfully sensitive to charges that the G.O.P. is trying to "fatten the herd by feeding the bulls," i.e., strengthen the economy by tax relief to business rather than to the individual. Democrats, who during years of governmental responsibility suffered the onus of high taxes, are now beginning to enjoy themselves−and they have lined up behind an effort to lower taxes by increasing individual income-tax exemptions...
...high because someone between the rancher and the retail counter is getting too much gravy? The answer is no, even though cattlemen are selling their grass-fed steers at a loss in today's markets. But middlemen are making no lush profits. The feeders, who buy steers to fatten up for market, are lucky to make a 10% profit-provided that they guess right on what the price will be when they sell. Meat packers' profits are smaller: last year they were six-tenths of a cent on each dollar of sales. The retailer, whose average markup...
...union also still bitterly opposes the use of typists instead of compositors to set TTS copy, sarcastically calls it a "promising means of union-busting." Thus far, TTS has not created unemployment among I.T.U. members. Papers like the Boulder (Colo.) Camera have simply been able to expand their coverage, fatten up their pages and grow with the same printing staff they had before...
...going biweekly, Cottier's will cut down on costs, and President Clarence E. Stouch hopes the magazine will fatten up and break the "vicious circle." The biweekly Collier's will run at least 112 pages, initially guarantee advertisers a circulation of 3,500,000, an increase of 400,000 over the fourth quarter of 1952. President Stouch blamed Collier's decline on competition from television, even though other magazine men pointed out that such weeklies as the Satevepost and LIFE have not suffered from TV. Collier's expects to run more fiction, more serials and more...
Bowdoin shouldn't be an easy team on which to fatten runs-batted-in totals. The visitors, according to Crimson coach Stuffy McInnis, have plenty of experience from play in top summer leagues...