Word: fatter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl of Warwick's fat parcel of New World land known as Connecticut turned out to be fatter than anyone suspected back in 1630. The Earl's Crown charter spoke with magnificent vagueness of a strip 40 leagues wide extending "throughout all the main lands . . . from the western [Atlantic] ocean to the South Seas [the Pacific]. A century and a half later, with a sound respect for geography and the realities of U.S. politics, Connecticut bowed to congressional insistence and ceded her western claims, with one exception. The exception was the Western Reserve, a 120-mile strip bordering...
With all these fat earnings, some stockholders got fatter dividends. U.S. Steel, which had paid a $1.25 quarterly rate since December 1947, shucked out $1.50. Jones & Laughlin paid 35% extra dividend in stock. Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., whose regular basis is 25? quarterly, topped them all with a special dividend...
...nicknamed Grady by a reporter) had charged Farmer Bill Mach. When Mach prudently sidestepped, Grady kept on going, right through a small feed-door (about the size of a Denver Post front page) in the side of a silo. For three days, while Grady placidly munched hay and grew fatter, Farmer Mach racked his brain for a way to get Grady out alive without tearing a hole in his silo...
...last three of his 41 years he had been practically everything else-including fast shuffles as a lifeguard, paint salesman and professional football player. His first radio job was as an announcer on Philadelphia's WCAU, a $55-a-week steppingstone to a far fatter income as a sports and special-events broadcaster...
...Fatter Scores. The New York Sun's enterprising sport editor looked up Ivy League football scores of 20 years ago, and matching them against 1948's, discovered that they had jumped 75%. Football's controversial free-substitution rule, allowing coaches to march armies of offensive & defensive specialists in & out at will, had put touchdown-making on a production line (TIME, Nov. 22). Everyone agreed that the rule favored teams with manpower, and took the game away from all-round stars. But there seemed to be little chance of a change in the rules...