Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blockbuster. The President then quietly dropped his blockbuster. The U.S., he said, has an objective today to join other nations for the general world peace-but without taking away the integrity of the U.S. in any shape, manner or form...
...boom seemed to be based on the fact that U.S. railroads, in general, have sensibly used a large chunk of swollen wartime profits to buy up their bonds and slash their fixed charges. Many are in the best financial shape of their lives. Traditionally, when these bonds move up toward par, stocks eventually follow. Example: Louisville & Nashville 53 (2003), above par at 107, have fluctuated only one and a half points in a year; the road's stock has soared 20 points...
Muscle Building. A round-the-clock worker, Spyros sometimes, puts in as many as 20 hours a day in his paneled Manhattan office. To keep in shape he exercises in the morning with company underlings in his private office gym, talks over business while being rubbed down. On weekends he fills his home at Mamaroneck, N.Y. with people, treats his guests to movies in his private theater. The shortest private Skouras show on record: two full-length features and eight shorts...
...Louis, smoking Horrid Cigars and talking about the Percentages of the League Teams." Before World War I thousands quoted the fable of the two sisters, upright Louella whose "Features did not seem to know the value of Team Work" and Mae, "short on Intelligence but long on Shape." Louella worked in a hat factory, and every Saturday night the-boss "crowded three dollars on her." Beautiful Mae married a wheat speculator, moved into a Sarcophagus on the Boulevard, hired Louella for $5 as Assistant Cook. (Moral: Industry and Perseverance bring a sure Reward...
Nobody really knows much about the gland-made hormones which influence personality, body shape, health. But what hormones do is often big news. Last week hormones made news in the treatment of acne and cancer...