Word: fatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...profits this year equal to the profits of record-breaking 1947? As a spate of first-quarter reports came out last week, the answer to this $17.4 billion question seemed to be a pleasant yes-and then some. For many a company, first-quarter profits were even fatter than the net for the corresponding period last year...
Despite soaring scrap prices, the steel industry had seldom been fatter. In 1947, U.S. Steel reported, it had netted $126.7 million, the biggest since 1929 ($197.6 million), and 43% above 1946. Three other steel companies (Republic, Youngstown, and Jones & Laughlin) made just about twice as much in 1947 as they had in 1946. Bethlehem Steel turned in a whopping profit of $51 million, the greatest in its history. For the first time in peace, its sales had also passed $1 billion...
With un-Bostonian enthusiasm, the Atlantic Monthly had beaten the drum for its 90th anniversary number: "No night fireworks over the lagoon, no drum majorettes, trotting races or paper hats. Nary a clam will be baked. Just a slightly fatter than usual issue filled . . . with a rich assortment of good reading. . . . Otherwise, it will be the same kind of supernormal, extraordinary, quite-without-precedent, all-time-high collection that the subscribers get in the mail every month...
Liquor stores did a rush trade. Practically every Canadian who wanted a drink had the price of a bottle, though it came high. The turkey supply was spotty; there were plenty of birds around Winnipeg, but few in southern Alberta, where growers were holding out lor fatter prices at Christmas...
...Wigmore. But there was encouraging news. At $1 a head, record crowds (average: 3,800 a match) turned out at Bostwick Field at Westbury, Long Island. The gate receipts were enough to pay all expenses, including the $5,000 prize. Cheered by his success, Promoter Bostwick promised fatter purses next year...