Word: beans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the Department of Agriculture's Economic Adviser Louis Bean, if the Democrats poll 33% of the vote in Maine they are likely to carry the nation. According to Dr. George Gallup, Democrats have to poll 38% in Maine to have a chance to carry the country...
...invasion of the St. Lawrence would be even more serious for the U. S. than an invasion of the Carib bean, it is also more difficult for an enemy to undertake. The sea route to South America and the Caribbean from Africa or the Azores is short (2,500 or 2,250 mi.), favored by fair weather and relatively difficult for the U. S. to patrol from its bases many hundreds of miles away...
Langtry, Tex., named by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean after the late, famed British Actress Lily Langtry, cabled an invitation to the Jersey Lily's daughter (Lady Ian Malcolm) and granddaughter (Lady Mary Bartlett) in bombed London: "Langtry's 200 citizens would be godparents to you. . . . He [Bean] would have wanted us to offer refuge to the daughter of the actress he so admired...
After the tumor peeled off, the patient was troubled with a new growth the size of "a large lima bean." When the doctors injected into it an arsenic compound, the lump disappeared in a few days. The patient lived "free from tumor" for two years, finally died of heart failure...
...true. I'm not going to be with you much longer! . . . For in a little while I'll be stripping sorghum and hoeing peas instead of peddling refrigerators and radios. ... I want to sell at least 25 new G. E.'s so I can leave some bean and potato money for the wife and children while I'm eating off of Uncle Bud. . . . Frankly, I've been sold out -so now I'm selling out. . . ." Beneath a list of salable articles Prisoner Ballew penned his signature and a postscript...