Word: goofers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goofer Feathers...
Moran & Mack weren't so dumb. Goofer feathers were a reality in a small way about the time Columbia was recording their famous record. Food Machinery's development (TIME, Sept. 18) is praiseworthy, not novel. Many markets, like ours, have had none but de-fuzzed peaches for several years...
...author of the article insists on calling "goofus feathers" "goofer feathers," let's at least give credit to the originators of the name for peach fuzz. They were the famous (or should I say-more famous) team of McIntyre & Heath, whom I presume Moran & Mack tried to imitate...
...TIME may have been be-fuzzed about de-fuzzers, but not about goofer feathers. Black-face comics Mclntyre & Heath did mention "goofus feathers" in their famous act, The Ham Tree, but TIME was talking about the Moran & Mack variety. A cultivated type, they are finer and softer than goofus feathers, which come from wild peaches...
...much has been heard of goofer feathers since the blackface team of Moran & Mack made them colloquially famous in the '20s. But as soon as a serious-minded manufacturer, Food Machinery Corp. of San Jose, Calif., can convert from war to peacetime products, the steady production of goofer feathers will become a main feature of a new U.S. industry. Food Machinery Corp. has designed and plans to market a peach de-fuzzing machine. The fuzz from the peaches, wafted by compressed air through a vent in the top of the machine, will become goofer feathers (to be thrown away...