Word: fattener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high-protein food oil. This fall growers in North Dakota and adjacent states will harvest more than 5 million acres of what they call "flower," double last year's planting and 100 times as large as that of a decade ago. Some 75% of the crop, which will fatten farm incomes by $800 million this year, is sold in Europe and such distant markets as Egypt and Australia...
...stormy meetings, the OPEC ministers agreed to raise their prices for the second time in a little more than three months-on this occasion by 9%, bringing the cost of a barrel of the marker crude, Saudi Arabian light oil, to $14.55 per bbl. Though that alone would fatten OPEC'S already bulging bank accounts with an additional $20 billion annually from the U.S., Western Europe and Japan, as well as more foreign exchange from the have-not nations of the Third World, the cartel also moved to allow individual members to stick on whatever price-gouging surcharges...
Researchers are talking about having computers monitor the internal workings of cattle, so that farmers could calculate better how to fatten them. The computers could read radio-telemetry signals on body temperature, heartbeat and respiration rates from transmitters swallowed by the cows or carried on backpacks. Already, an electronic entrepreneur named Marvin Marshall tours the dairylands of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio in a Ford Econoline van packed with IBM computer equipment. In two hours he will analyze a farmer's dairy cows and whip out a formula for feed calculated to permit each beast to produce the maximum amount...
...waste. The Garsts have promoted the idea of feeding cattle corn cobs, stalks and leaves that traditionally were thrown away; when this "stover" is mixed with other nutrients, the beasts love it. If this method became universal, Garst estimates, the U.S. could fatten 50% more cattle than the 110 million or so now in the national herd...
...Strom Thurmond: defense of the American way of life from the Russian threat, pursuit of fiscal integrity to wipe out the nefarious national debt, welfare reform to ferret out the cheaters, etc. When Evers isn't talking like an arch-conservative, he's persuading Mississippians he can better fatten their wallets than any other politician. Evers boasts of his Washington connections and how only he can "bring the bacon home to Mississippi." Any ideals he's ever had have given way to practical politics...