Word: nut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...downtown Los Angeles, started the Kaynar Corp. in 1943 on the strength of an order for bolt retainers from Ryan Aeronautical Co. They picked up machinery at auctions, set up a profitable, 24-hour operation, spelling each other at the machines. When war's end grounded the aircraft nut-and-bolt business, Engineer Reiner invented the Lady Ellen Klip-pie, an improved woman's hairclip that has captured 90% of the market. Later, he invented the Kaylock nut, a self-locking aircraft nut so light that it reduced the B-52's weight...
...hunters afield, either directly employed or under contract. All their people have been enlisted as part-time hunters: when Francis C. Brown, president of New Jersey's Schering Corp., was in Port-au-Prince for the recent opening of the Haiti Psychiatric Institute, he heard of a red nut used by voodoo practitioners to calm disturbed patients, brought back samples that are now under laboratory test. Schering chemists are also analyzing a concoction which an African vendor labeled Mafuta Bhubesi-lion...
...there is a hard core of national brands that the private labels have never been able to copy successfully. These include Campbell's soups, Heinz's Ketchup, Gerber and Beech-Nut baby foods, Betty Crocker and Pillsbury cake mixes, Kellogg and Post cereals, General Foods' JellO, and Hellmann's mayonnaise. Explains Pillsbury Co. Vice President James Rankin: "Where much research, refinement and technology are needed, the private brands lag behind. Because we keep up quality and are always sure of enough research on new products and enough advertising to tell the public about them, we have...
...Cracker. In Modesto, Calif., Filbert Brazil, weary of playing the nut of the joke, changed his name to Gilbert Brazil...
...accept a boy, we're going to do our darndest to get him through," Headmaster Edwin H.B. Pratt '36 says. "At the same time, when you have a lot of applicants later on, the temptation is to pick the best of the new lot and discard the though nut whom you already have on your hands...