Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Byproducts. "Excellent paper can be made from straw, cornstalks . . . artificial gas from straw . . . starch, flour from sweet potatoes. . . . Rayon from the fuzz on cotton seed. . . . Dynamite, linoleum, flour from peanut shells...
...Newark, N. J., Christi Cortzi, peanut man, drew his life savings of $4,000 from the bank, exchanged it for a bundle which, a friend told him, contained $36,000, but in which he found only old newspapers...
...concrete spread of 364,000 square feet (more than 8 acres), the largest single uninterrupted floor area yet built. Over this is the dock structure, a cavernous semi-paraboloid building 211 ft. high, 1,175 ft. long. From the high perspective of a flying machine it looks like a peanut or silkworm cocoon. Although the dock was not entirely covered last week, 40,000 people could congregate under the finished portion to watch the ceremony of fastening the first sections of the first airship with Dentist Roehner's gold rivet...
...Capitol Theatre, St. Catherine's, Canada, patrons cracking crisp shells made sound pictures hard to hear, caused the manager to bar peanuts, peanut eaters...
...Pushing Sirs: In answer to Lawyer Curtis J. Quinby's criticism of "Swan Upping" as being a silly thing done by otherwise intelligent and progressive people: Granted that it is a foolish, though traditional, ceremony . . . what price a Britisher pushing a peanut up Ben Nevis with his nose as has been recently achieved up Pike's Peak. . . . No, Sir . . . not on your life. I seem to have heard also of publicity loving individuals who like to dance a marathon from Worcester to Boston, Mass, and also . . . what about those others who, perhaps on the spur of the moment...