Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make such exasperating, excruciating noises that listeners turn to another station rather than be driven nuts. One favorite Axis jamming signal is a series of musical tones repeated interminably, as if a mad vibraphonist were banging away rapidly with one mallet. Another sounds like a collection of piercingly shrill peanut whistles...
...Floyd Weaver had kept his ear to the ground he might have heard Georgia cotton and peanut farmers grumbling: one time farm workers were making $5, $6, $7 a day, and more, at war plants; long-opened cotton was standing unpicked in the fields; peanuts were languishing underground. Farmers, putting their wives and children to work, could not pick all the cotton, dig all the peanuts. They could not even pay farm hands $2 or $3 a day. They did not blame the workers...
Floyd Weaver kept strictly to his mission. Traveling through peanut-rich Crisp County (150 miles south of Atlanta), he offered remaining farm hands $30 to $40 a week; hinted about girls around Newark whose boy friends had gone into the Army. After a week he had rounded up ten Negroes. He sent for Harold G. Weston, the company's personnel manager...
Flinty Judge Orion Thomas Gower, a strict disciplinarian, felt it was high time to hand down a lesson. He had lost his patience: it was ridiculous, he said, for the Government to ask housewives to save fats when thousands of tons of cottonseed oil and peanut oil were lost for lack of farm hands. He sentenced Weston to a year on a chain gang, fined him $1,000. The imprisonment was stayed on condition that Weston leave the State within 24 hours, stay out for at least 18 months...
Cracks and gags are Authoress Powell's specialty. This novel crackles with them. As social comment it is a feast of peanut brittle...