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...coffee cherries. The cherries came from one of the trees that Cowgill, as chief of the coffee section of the joint U.S.-Guatemalan agricultural development project, had carefully tended for nearly four years. When the cherries were beaten, washed, dried, scraped, and reduced to cafe en oro (the exportable bean), visiting coffee planters could hardly believe their eyes. From the same species of tree, Coffea arabica, they-and most other Latin American producers-had seldom harvested much more than a pound of beans per tree. Cowgill's yield: a whopping...
Bargain. In Chicago, Zoologist Robert Bean announced that the price of an elephant, which was $4,000 last year, has gone down...
Last week the vote was in and State Senator Elmer H. Wene (rhymes with bean), the gubernatorial choice of the Democratic Party and the last best hope of Boss Frank Hague, was a loser. New Jersey's voters, by a plurality of 80,000, had reelected able, hard-working Republican Governor Alfred E. Driscoll...
...Louis Bean must have leaned back in his swivel chair and smiled last Wednesday morning when he read the results of New York's senatorial election. By giving Herbert Lehman a 200,000-vote majority, the electorate helped further to substantiate Bean's remarkable theory, which last year predicted Truman's victory and now calls for a Democratic landslide...
Jesse would walk as much as 20 miles to fill his bag with books to bring back to his pupils. "I went with [them] to cornhuskings, apple-peelings, bean stringings, square dances, and to the belling of the bride when there was a wedding . . . I never missed a party at the mill when they made sorghum molasses ... I went to all the churches ... I went to parties where we played post office and where we danced Skip to my Lou . . . There was somewhere to go every night...