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...supplicant walnut men, the University of California's College of Agriculture invented a machine in which the walnuts ride on whizzing belts past a buzzsaw. The buzz-saw nicks a groove in the shells of the nuts. Then, as the nuts pass a tiny aperture, an explosive charge of acetylene and oxygen is shot into each nut. The nut then drops into an ignition chamber where a gas flame ignites the charge. Pop! goes the walnut. Most of the shells drop into one hopper, the meats into another...
Hellzapoppin. Like life in a nut house at the height of a bombardment (TIME...
...others: American Chicle Co., American Snuff Co., Beech-Nut Packing Co., Bon Ami Co. "A", Central Aguirre Associates, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co., First National Stores, Inc., W. T. Grant Co., George W. Helme Co., Homestake Mining Co., International Business Machines Corp., Kroger Grocery and Baking Co., Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., McKeesport Tinplate Corp., Monsanto Chemical Co., Sun Oil Co., and United States Tobacco...
...yard to check up before proceeding to winter quarters at Sarasota, Fla. The show was off the road before midseason because Mr. North, having lost money lately, was unable to induce his union roustabouts to take a 25? pay cut. Last week Mr. North reached into a $250,000 "nut" acquired early in the season, paid off the roustabouts. He also paid off the thin man, the fat woman, the clowns, the midgets, most of whom agreed with Star Performer Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck that they should take the cut, go ahead with the show...
...Beech-Nut Packing...