Word: fattening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upward & Onward. At a special meeting last week, Cage plumped for still more expansion. Said he to his stockholders: "Folks, when you buy a hog, you don't starve him. You fatten him up. It's the same with this company. We've got to fatten this hog. We've got to fatten this company." The union capitalists promptly approved his plan to buy or set up union-owned insurance companies in most of the 48 states and to build a $1,000,000, five-story office building in downtown Dallas. Cage knows there...
...real effort for a man as crusty as McKellar. His friends tried to give Gore's issue a full turn. If the old man is defeated, they said, Tennessee will have two "junior" Senators and no influence in Washington. McKellar, who has ruthlessly used his power to fatten his friends and crush his enemies, talked of his appropriations committee as "the most powerful ... in the world," and pointed out that it took him 29 years to become its chairman. This week, as Tennessee Democrats went to vote for McKellar or Gore in their primary (almost tantamount to election), political...
...winners had one big chance to fatten their point margin in the second quarter, but it never materialized. A long completed Dunster pass was called back because of an ineligible receiver down field...
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...