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...Silkworms grow fatter on mulberry leaves picked at dusk. Cattle do better if pastured in late afternoon rather than in the morning...
...roads turning in better-than-average earnings, stockholders disgustedly dumped their shares on the market, by week's end had sliced some 10% off all Pere Marquette and Nickel Plate issues. But for stockholders patient enough to hang on, Bob Young's belt-tightening should mean much fatter checks later...
...guns it would carry, as anti-aircraft protection, twenty-four 5-in. and eighteen 40-mm. guns, four multiple pom-poms plus machine guns, six planes with two catapults on the quarterdeck and sixteen 21-in. torpedo tubes. Such a mighty cruiser, said Stanford, would be necessarily shorter, fatter and slower than the Brooklyn, but anyway "no ship can ever be designed fast enough to run away from enemy aircraft...
...autumn of 1942, this last dream was dead. Göring, Krupp and other mammoths were taller and fatter, little businesses were withering away. In December the official Reich Office of Statistics announced that by September 1942, state insurance paid to firms closed by war had reached 44 million Reichsmarks-more than double the amount paid out in 1941. A recent issue of the Essener National Zeitung (Göring's paper) announced, as evidence of the success of Industrial Dictator Albert Speer's rationalization program, that in the past six months the number of firms producing special...
...those of mice, do not drain themselves. So last June Dr. Robertson began studying the effect of glycol vapor on monkeys imported from the University of Puerto Rico's School of Tropical Medicine. So far, after many months' exposure to the vapor, the monkeys are happy and fatter than ever. Dr. Robertson does not expect mankind to live, like his monkeys, continuously in an atmosphere of glycol vapor; but it should be most valuable in such crowded places as schools and theaters, where most respiratory diseases are picked...