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...team that is to uphold the affirmative at Harvard and suggest reasons for Landon's election will be Richard W. Sullivan '38, of Caribou, Maine; Donald McDonald '39 of Omaha, Nebraska; and Robert W. Bean '39, of Council Bluffs, Iowa...
Henry Ford began investigating the beans in 1930, spent more than $1,000,000 in the next few years growing them, finding out how they could be used. Few months ago the River Rouge works got a $5,000,000 addition in the shape of a soy-bean processing plant. Into Ford cars at present go the product of some 60,000 acres of soybeans. The oil goes into glycerine for shock-absorbers, enamel for body finishes, binder for foundry cores. The meal, turned into plastics, rolls off the assembly line as horn buttons, gearshift knobs, window-trims, distributor cases...
...others what to do to be happy, but I will be able to tell anyone anything, when I am able to meet them, eye to eye, on an equal footing. ... In case you think that's a phoney halo I'm trying to tie up on my bean, this is Elsie. I just want to be happy, and I'm going to be, as soon as I can do everything for everybody that I want to do without some one thinking, 'I wonder what she gets for doing that...
When his behavior has unfavorable reactions, he goes back to the seeress, who creates a new past for him as Ram-Tah, Egyptian king. Possession of his ancestor's shriveled mummy further restores Bean's confidence. Marriage to Mary and the sale of an airplane patent, following the destruction of the mummy, then convince Bean that his deeds are his own instead...
Possibly because of its unimportant cast and modest aspirations, Bunker Bean is practically perfect hot-weather entertainment...