Word: bean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus the castor bean will flourish from Illinois and Indiana to Texas, at least until the China trade is restored. The Rio Grande Valley of Texas has already jumped into production on the basis of four crops per year on each farm. The first commercial castor-oil crushing plant went into operation at Brownsville last spring, ready to process a million pounds of oil this year...
Coffee Hijack. A truck carrying 24,056 Ib. of A. & P. coffee from a New York warehouse to Philadelphia stores was hijacked and its contents stolen when its driver stopped at a Jersey City bean wagon for a cup of coffee...
...strictly speaking, in the wee hours of the morning, the siren on top of Widener will let loose with its unearthly moan, street lights all over Cambridge will go out, and Harvard's fourth test blackout will be under way. Defense plants will adjust their blackout shades, all night bean-cries will be darkened, and those solitary night-owls who are still up and about will have to snuff out their midnight...
...hands of the big clock pointed to 1. Suddenly the restaurant's colored waiters sidled towards the doors. Suddenly, as if by magic, they disappeared. Bean soup (15?) was on the menu, all right, but there would be no soup served that day. The waiters to the nation's Congressmen had gone on strike -the first strike in the Capitol's history...
...third day Manager W. A. Brockwell got most of the waiters back, with the promise that he would do something for them, somehow. Once again bean soup moved from kitchen to gullets...