Word: fatten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson should have little trouble in notching another win over the hapless Tigers and its scorers may even fatten their point totals unless the unbelievable happens...
...offering of 220,000 shares at $8 each was quickly oversubscribed, and shares rose to about $12.50 by week's end. New capital will enable Parks to expand his model sausage factory in Baltimore and to fatten his rather limited product line. About 12,000 stores on the East Coast from Virginia northward market Parks pork sausages and scrapple. Soon to come are quick-cooking sausages, beef sausages, and what Parks calls "the whole line of Southern foods, such as barbecued anything...
Ojukwu has also said no to a British offer of $600,000 in relief funds. His reason: Britain sells arms to Gowon. Therefore, says Ojukwu, to give food at the same time would only "fatten the Biafrans for slaughter with British-made weapons." Meanwhile his countrymen need an estimated 200 tons of protein food a day to survive, and are getting only about 40. Ojukwu insists that the only way to protect Biafra's sovereignty is to fly the food in. He proposes mercy flights during the daytime, but these require the cooperation of federal Nigeria, which has threatened...
There is a bedraggled familiarity and truth in the moral landscape limned by Corson. The betrayed are the widows of Vietnamese whose pay is stolen by the district chief, the civilians fleeing the war's fury who are left hungry while officials fatten on their rice rations, the people of hamlets pillaged by South Vietnamese soldiers there to "liberate" them. Also betrayed, as Corson sees it, are the U.S. fighting men killed by an enemy in arms against Saigon's injustices while the U.S.'s Vietnamese allies idle in barracks or wax rich as laundrymen, garbage collectors...
Costly Distinction. Such steps have yet to fatten A. &P.'s slim profit margin, which, at 1% of sales, is far narrower than the 1.5% achieved by Safeway, the second-biggest chain. Many stockholders, particularly heirs of Founder George Huntington Hartford, who started the chain 109 years ago, place much of the blame on a foundation set up by Hartford's sons, John A. and George L. Hartford, which holds the biggest single block (34%) of A. & P. stock. They maintain that the management-dominated foundation (eight of ten trustees are present or past A. & P. executives...