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...eager private dealers sell the grain on a "cost-and-freight" basis, under which they will arrange the shipping themselves, and include the cost in the total package. The dealers will take a chance on getting smaller profits if they have to ship American, but can reap fatter profits if they move the grain in foreign bottoms...
...what Germans call the Edelfresswelle, the gorgeous gobbling wave, buttocks and bosoms have expanded even more rapidly than the economy, and doctors have recognized two universal ailments: Doppelkinnepidemie, double-chin epidemic, and Hängebauch, or bellyhang. The majority of Germans, from newborn babes to Cabinet ministers, are fatter today than at any other time in this century. A top dietetic authority estimates that 20% of all West Germans are overweight. In a new book titled Grow Thin, but How?, Dr. Andreas Duttler warns: "Corpulence is the dark side of the Economic Miracle...
Today it is richer and fatter than ever. The speakers program that was almost nonexistent five years ago now brings Congressmen so frequently that one Midwestern representative recently stormed into the Republican National Committee in Washington to charge that only ten YR's came out to hear him at Harvard. HYRC leaders explained there had been a club event the night before the Congressman's visit and another coming up two nights later; they were more surprised by the charges than embarbarrassed...
...plants, were able to sell nails, barbed wire and construction rods in U.S. markets at prices that U.S. manufacturers could not match. The foreign challenge in steel was costing the U.S. 40,000 jobs and almost $1 billion in sales a year. What U.S. steelmakers needed, Blough contended, was fatter profits with which to finance modernization of their aging plants...
...time-honored system has never been trouble-free. Breaker points become worn or corroded; spark plugs get fouled with carbon or lead from souped-up gasoline. Lately trouble has increased. Engines are getting bigger and faster; their highly compressed fuel charges need fatter sparks to explode them, but the conventional system delivers weaker sparks at high speeds. So Detroit's automakers are warming toward ignition systems that take advantage of modern electronics...