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Based on B-29 design, the Stratocruiser's two-decked, double fuselage, looking in cross section like a cigar atop a stogie, is fatter and longer than that of the B29, although the wing spread is the same. As an all-cargo Army plane, it will haul 35,000 pounds, which can be easily trundled in & out a letdown ramp in the rear. In a pinch, it can carry 172 soldiers. For postwar flying, Boeing expects airlines to use the top deck for passengers, who can sleep in roomy berths (see cut), the bottom either for a cocktail lounge...
...Blaine Whipple, editor of the weekly MacKenzie County Farmer and Watford Guide, never had fatter advertising lineage or a bigger circulation (1,771 paid-up subscribers...
...Comparisons with 1942 have been distorted by the fact that during last year most companies consistently overestimated taxes before the tax bill finally went through. Thus their first three quarters' earnings were understated, while the final quarter looked much fatter than it really was. And conversion problems earlier in the year also gave the year-end quarter a lopsided advantage...
...fabulous, rewards for those at the top are as a magnet that all along has been exerting an upward pull. . . . After all, what you find in a pay envelope is profit and most of the people I have known in my life have been constantly trying to get a fatter pay envelope...
Roosters. A new way to produce fatter, tastier cockerels, to make even tough old roosters succulent, had been discovered by Biochemist Frederick W. Lorenz of the University of California. His method: the injection of a synthetic sex hormone. Lorenz had begun by wondering why a hen grows fat when it starts laying eggs. He proved it was because the female sex hormone, estrogen, increases the amount of fat in the blood. Lorenz then hit on the idea of giving estrogen (available in a cheap, synthetic form called diethylstilbestrol) to fatten up male fowl...