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Trouble in the West. While the fight raged in Washington, more troubles were piling up for Mike Di Salle in the West. Feeders, who bring the cattle from the range and fatten them for slaughter, were threatening to stop feeding entirely. Furthermore, the severest drought in 30 years had forced Texas ranchers to hurry their cattle out of the state for pasturing much earlier than usual. With good pasture land filled up, many an animal will have to be slaughtered before it is properly fattened...
...sales as well as profits, General Motors was tops. And with a big slice of G.M. income to fatten its earnings, Du Pont, though it ranked only 13th in sales, stood fourth in profits. Contrariwise, some companies with big sales ranked relatively poorly in profits, because of traditionally slim profit margins. A notable example: A & P (which has not yet finished auditing its fiscal 1950 sales, but expects a tidy increase) ranks fifth in sales but only 16th in profits...
...down payment on a cigar store and used it profitably as a front for an illegal liquor business. With the new stake, he got back into sheepherding. When other herders told him it couldn't be done, he moved a herd of 25,000 sheep into Kansas to fatten them up on leased wheatfields. By such tricks he managed to cut his costs enough to weather the depression. Later, he bought 1,800 acres dirt cheap in Colorado, cleaned up when prices rose by selling all but the 280 acres he needed for raising cattle...
Well warned of shortages and higher prices ahead, businessmen were buying frantically, hoping to fatten their inventories before the Government imposed allocations. Prize example: General Electric Co. received 140% more orders for generating equipment in the six weeks from July 7 to Aug. 16 than it had in the preceding six months...
Mussorgsky's notebook did not fatten very quickly. Poverty, a growing fondness for vodka, other musical chores, and the necessity of supporting himself by work as a government office drudge kept distracting him. When he died in 1881 at the age of 42 there were still some patches of the opera left undone. His friend Rimsky-Korsakov finished the work, and the opera had its official premiere in St. Petersburg in 1911, began to get scattered performances outside of Russia...