Word: nut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deluxe Colored screen version of the play, written and produced by Playwright Stevens, lacks two of the Broadway principals and most of the bawdier jokes. Instead of Boyer and Colbert, the picture offers James Mason, an actor who could not crack a joke if it was a lichee nut, and Susan Hayward, a bargain-basement Bette Davis whose lightest touch as comedienne would stun a horse...
...Trappistine nuns, the women's branch of the Trappists, produce four types of expensive candies (e.g., caramels, butter nut-munch) at St. Mary's Abbey in Wrentham, Mass., sell them at de luxe shops throughout...
...Brazilian Amazon Development Agency lent him $125,000 to start his rubber and Brazil nut groves, but since they take seven years before they bear fruit, he planted sugar cane for a quicker crop. It grew fast- 18 ft. high. To make the most of it he had to process it into a product he could sell locally. Friends in Texas dug up $30,000 to build the distillery...
...needs of the whole territory. After that he hopes to build a plant to dry fish caught in the Rio Madeira, sell them for 20? to 30? for 2.2 Ibs. in the Amazon basin to replace the imported dried codfish that sells for $1. Furthermore, the rubber and Brazil nut trees soon will begin bearing cash crops. Says Jungle Jim: "This is pioneering the way we did out West 100 years ago. It's the most exciting place on earth." With the success of his plantation assured, Choate is building a brick house so that his family can join...
What the world needs is a suspense novel in which a guileless Arab touring New York stumbles across a gang of Macadamia nut smugglers and is pursued across the wastes of Scarsdale by admen armed with barbecue spits, while sullen peasants riding power mowers close in menacingly. In the meantime, thriller writers still prefer the Mideast or Southern Europe for their setting. Two of the better new blood-and-Baedekers...