Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philadelphia's Democratic Representative William Green sent up a long amendment that proposed, in a nutshell, to exclude peanuts from the list of "basic" farm commodities-wheat, corn, tobacco, rice, cotton-that would receive 90% parity. The Democratic leadership paid little attention to Green's move; similar amendments had been easily defeated in the past...
...leaders failed to realize that candy manufacturers, hurt by the high price of the peanuts they use in their products, had done an effective job of lobbying. Said Congressman Green, who has some candymakers in his district: "A peanut candy bar sells for a nickel. If peanut prices were at a reasonable level, more peanuts could...
Republicans were delighted; the Democratic leadership was in despair. If Congressman Green's peanut amendment stayed in the bill, it meant the defeat of 90% parity. Reason: Democrats from such states as Virginia and Georgia would not vote for a farm bill that slighted the peanut. To gain time, Speaker Sam Rayburn hastily recessed the House...
...sales agents. They are a hardworking, hard-drinking crew, and they have plenty of money to spend on oysters. Scottish salmon and French wine, served in Leo's nightclubs. The Belgians drive American cars, particularly Buicks, and wear colorful combinations of sun helmet, khaki shirt, pink shorts, bright green woolen socks and beige suede shoes. "They have two kinds of conversation," gibes an English-born resident of Leo. "One is an offer, the other a counter-offer...
...shipyards and offices. Evenings, they stream homeward to the jumble of shacks, tenements, modern homes and tastefully built hospitals that make up "black Leo." In the darkness, millions of candles glow under the mango trees where Negro market women do a roaring trade in bread, beer and dried fish, green-and-brown-striped caterpillars (a delicacy when fried in deep fat) and blackened lumps of elephant meat...