Word: fatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this superservice the Army pays the airlines cost plus a percentage of costs (usually 5 to 10%). This is fatter than the deal talked about last month: cost plus $1. But this week most airline operators were too agog over their new cargo service even to think about profits. Even if the cash is not rolling in as it once did, many operators figure the ASC is good stuff, as an enforced laboratory it has prodded the airlines into wonders they would not dare try themselves...
Thanks to fatter pay envelopes, cigar sales are also higher. The highest-priced cigars-25? each & up-soared a titanic 64% above 1941. Nickel stogie sales rose only...
Wing Commander Douglas Bader, legless British air ace held by the Germans since last August, waited delivery from Britain of his fifth pair of artificial legs. Bader wrote that being idle made him fat, and the fatter he got, the worse his legs fitted...
...turkey that Mr. Morgenthau and his luncheon guests expect to cut so soon after the New Year will probably include a far meatier excess-profits tax, fatter taxes on corporation incomes, higher personal-income taxes. It might include the 15% withholding tax on salaries that Mr. Morgenthau wanted last month, increased Social Security taxes, compulsory joint returns for husbands & wives. It will probably be at least $5 billion bigger than 1941's bill...
...luscious Lana Turner, this blissful ascent to stardom is not unlike a drastic year-end model change at General Motors. Not long ago the most that was asked of her was to wear a sweater fetchingly. Now M.G.M., after a slight build-up (fatter roles in Ziegfeld Girl and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), has demanded that she act as well as strut. She comes through surprisingly well, although the 1941 Turner may have to undergo a little more streamlining before she can hold the road at high speed...