Word: nut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Life building, the Roerich Museum and built a home for himself at Bronxville, N. Y. with no heating arrangements on the second floor because Mr. Coyle believes that people should sleep in very cold rooms. Just before joining the technical review board of PWA, he had finished planting a nut farm in New Jersey. Laurence Todd is known to Washington newspapermen as a Social Registerite, has served for 14 years as Washington correspondent for Federated (labor) Press. He has recently become U. S. representative for Tass, official Soviet newsgathering organization...
...time explaining the change that Tom Huston finally wrote a booklet : What Happened to Tom Huston - The Whole Story in a Peanut Shell. Son of a Texas peanut planter, he started to toast peanuts in a small shack in Columbus about 1925. By 1930 Tom Huston's Pea nut Co. had a big factory, was earning $400,000 per year and its stock was listed on the New York Curb Exchange. "My sun was shining brightly," wrote he. "The desire to conquer new fields was running in my veins." The field he picked for conquest was Georgia...
...Wrigley, Beech-Nut, and American Chicle, which together make about 95% of all the gum chewed in the U. S., that clause is no burden. National advertising has built up their consumer demand. But when Tom Huston's salesmen approach a retailer with an unknown brand like Julep the retailer wants a money-back agreement in case the gum does not sell. Tom Huston says that none of his 40,000 retail outlets have ever called on him to make good his money-back agreement, but that in new territory his salesmen cannot sell without...
...hoped, that the axiom in this instance may justly apply. These references have to do with your editorial of February thirteenth, in which, under the nom de plume Nemo, and with freedom of expression that is startlingly unique, you crack open the nut of smug, self-conceit, and expose the "Kernel" (Charles A. Lindbergh) in most commendable fashion...
...Royal Indian Navy is a paper promise to His Majesty's nut-brown subjects, but from the potent Imperial East Indies Station went Vice-Admiral Dunbar-Nasmith who won his Victoria Cross by torpedoing and sinking from his submarine Ell precisely eleven Turkish ships...