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...possibilities which now appear of ensuring for Morocco a calm, orderly evolution of its destiny in permanent cooperation with the renewed framework of France." In Morocco, where Ben Youssef has become in exile a hero he never was in residence, joyous nationalists bought lambs, chickens and goats to fatten up for slaughter when Ben Youssef returns. At week's end the French government itself bowed to the inevitable and formally decided that the man they had exiled so peremptorily two years ago could return to Morocco's vacant throne when ever it suited him. This might be hard...
From the best Angus breeder in his area he bought "Big Boy," the finest animal Joe has ever owned. To fatten Big Boy for showing, Joe fed him three times a day; he washed him every Saturday, groomed his hide with oil and got grandmother Carver to put a good square plait in his tail. Result: at the 1949 International Livestock Exposition in Chicago, Big Boy won 16th place among the nation's best Angus, and Joe, kissing Big Boy's poll, got his picture in the Chicago Tribune...
...Desert, Rancher Stoddard Jess has built one of the desert's tidiest agricultural arrangements. His chief crop is turkeys, 55,000 birds or more each year, and better than 100,000 poults. In a complex of freshwater ponds, he raises a million rainbow trout from fingerlings. The trout fatten on entrails from the dressed turkeys and on worms grown as a crop on the ranch. Water from the ponds irrigates fields of corn, and the turkeys are turned loose to fatten on the corn...
...which runs newsstand and restaurant concessions as well as Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza skating rink. As a boy, Garfinkle helped support his widowed mother by selling papers to Staten Island ferry passengers, built up a big independent newsstand network along the East Coast. He will try to fatten sales by reorganizing magazine distribution and reaching for new outlets along traffic-heavy superhighways...
...Financial mismanagement in the government. Semi-independent government corporations, e.g., the Centro Bolivar, the Workers' Bank, are paying many debts in short-term government notes. The contractors and sellers who get the notes must give discounts up to 18% to convert them into cash, so they naturally fatten their prices to cover the expected sacrifice. The absurdity of such costly short-term debt financing (total: some $127 million) in rich, credit-worthy Venezuela seems explainable only in terms of the carefree feeling that "it's only money." Pérez Jiménez, not at all amused...