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Judging from reports filtering out from the Midlands, this year's Missouri track machine is fatter than a corn-fed hog. In the Drake Relays, their hurdlers ran 2-3-4 behind national champion Harrison Dillard, averaging 14.5 in the highs, 23 at in the lows. They are two and three deep in most of the other events, and as Coach Mikkola commented, "They're not coming east just for the train ride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Faces Powerful Field at West Point Today | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

...advertisers who can't afford (or don't want) to buy time on a full network. Some of his open-ends are filled in by as many as 80 advertisers on 200 stations. Ziv's 1946 income: about $7.5 million; the pickings would be much, much fatter after an earthquake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Open-End Game | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Maury was taking an interest again in his home town. This week he filed his candidacy for mayor. His chances looked good. He was a little greyer, a little fatter; he was almost broke, and he no longer talked with his old sass. But San Antonio seemed to want a man without too many surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Maury's Back! | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...profits. Some boat owners, by union reckoning, were making as much as $300 on a shareholding of $500. But deep-sea crewmen, who got only about $1,000,000 (some $2,000 apiece) of a 1946 gross running between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000, wanted a fatter slice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Strikebound Fleet | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...failed to become any fatter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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