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...Leche-Long ticket won, but afterward nobody had time for Earl. The gang rushed to the public trough and swilled up wealth with porcine delight. Leche, a fat and jolly man, built himself a mansion on the exclusive St. Tammany "Gold Coast." George Caldwell, an even fatter man, who was construction supervisor for the burgeoning L.S.U. campus, built an even better one-its bathroom boasted 14-karat gold fixtures. Not to be outdone, Abe Shushan, president of the New Orleans Levee Board, built a mansion...
...farm. He had begun to intone like the Psalmist and to compare himself (favorably) with Christ. The master cell, said Brown, "takes all the fight and hatred out of men and animals alike. It will prevent disease and pestilence. It will prevent famine. It will make pigs fatter; make cows produce more milk. It makes the atom bomb obsolete . . . The master cell is my God, and it will bring peace...
...profits this year equal to the profits of record-breaking 1947? As a spate of first-quarter reports came out last week, the answer to this $17.4 billion question seemed to be a pleasant yes-and then some. For many a company, first-quarter profits were even fatter than the net for the corresponding period last year...
Despite soaring scrap prices, the steel industry had seldom been fatter. In 1947, U.S. Steel reported, it had netted $126.7 million, the biggest since 1929 ($197.6 million), and 43% above 1946. Three other steel companies (Republic, Youngstown, and Jones & Laughlin) made just about twice as much in 1947 as they had in 1946. Bethlehem Steel turned in a whopping profit of $51 million, the greatest in its history. For the first time in peace, its sales had also passed $1 billion...
With un-Bostonian enthusiasm, the Atlantic Monthly had beaten the drum for its 90th anniversary number: "No night fireworks over the lagoon, no drum majorettes, trotting races or paper hats. Nary a clam will be baked. Just a slightly fatter than usual issue filled . . . with a rich assortment of good reading. . . . Otherwise, it will be the same kind of supernormal, extraordinary, quite-without-precedent, all-time-high collection that the subscribers get in the mail every month...