Word: nut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Americans have not heard of the babassu nut since September 1936, when Alf Landon attacked this "jungle product" as an example of the riffraff being let into the country by Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade treaties. It grows in Brazil and its oil, used in margarine, competed with U.S. butter. Alf's "babassu speech" was a major milestone on his route to Kansas. But last week the babassu nut came into...
...American Can Co., Beech-Nut, California Packing, Campbell Soup, Continental Can, Corn Products, General Foods, H. J. Heinz, Libby, McNeill & Libby, National Biscuit, Owens-Illinois Glass, Quaker Oats, Standard Brands, Swift, United Fruit...
...jubilantly announced that only one strike of "primary significance" was delaying the defense program: a walkout of 90 C.I.O. autoworkers at the Rausch Nut & Manufacturing Co. (nuts & bolts for airplanes...
Usually it is a lot of trouble to kill a juramentado. The Moros are fierce fellows whose teeth are stained black and their lips red from chewing betel nut. A juramentado has the strength of a man slashing his way, with a wicked, wavy-edged kris, to a Moro heaven filled with sloe-eyed houris. When the U.S. Army first occupied the Philippines, many a soldier was killed after emptying his .38 into a Moro who kept on coming. So the Army switched to .455, which nearly kick a man's arm off but are no respecters of frenzy...
...seven minutes, four men, Art Besse '42, Art Driscoll '45, Sean Murphy '44, and Al Fullerton '44, sprinted to a photo finish. Werner Maas '43 was forced to drop out of the race after about two miles, having lost several spokes from his front wheel on the wing-nut of Bosse's bike...