Word: nut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rabelaisian, old Bartlett Arkell rounded off 50 years last week as first and only president of still-booming Beech-Nut Packing Co. Sadly he stepped up to chairman, and turned the active management over to his son, Clark. But no one expected this schoolboy's dream of a success to end here. There was still plenty of kick left...
...Bart Arkell started with $10,-ooo, less than ten employes and an idea that the public would buy hickory-cured ham - his only product at the start. Be fore he eased off he had pushed Beech-Nut to No. 3 place in the U.S. confectionery industry, built its assets to $22,800,000 without a cent of debt...
...break even, Harvard should have the strength down the line to win most of its matches. The league is weaker than it was a year ago for there are no more Meisters, Bingham's or Schriebers to contend with, but Yale is always a tough nut to crack, and Dartmouth and Holy Cross will be improved. The Crimson can come in anywhere from first to fourth, depending on how the four-footers drop when the chips are down...
California is the leading State in the production of English walnuts. Alabama and Mississippi produce pecans. But now South Dakota gets into the race and proceeds to show us what a real nut is. I quote from the March 24 issue of TIME: "Adolph Hitler is a German heman and the greatest warrior that this world ever produced since history was first written and to be candid I believe he is a holy man." This letter was written from Custer...
...tune at the wrong time. Without any hesitation he went on: "They cut out eight bars, the dirty--And I didn't know which eight bars they were gong to cut. Why don't somebody tell me these things around here? Holy--I'm going off my nut." And you'd be surprised how funny an ordinary cussword can sound with a string section background. Unfortunately this gem of Papa Bing's can be heard only on dubbings from the original master. I was fortunate enough to get one. Line forms to the right...