Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Processing consists of heating the manure up to 1900 degrees, mixing it with cocoa beaus and peanut shells, and grinding, 25 tons of bovnug are produced every day. Princeton men think that...
That fight was not settled, but another farm fight was. Stealing out of the canebrake, Southern Congressmen pushed through a bill to allow cotton growers to sow 1,200,000 more acres of this already too plentiful crop, with guarantees of government price support. They also managed to increase peanut planting (another so-called "basic" crop) by 100,000 acres. What the farm program (a bipartisan measure) would cost this year no one could say. To take care of it, the House, by voice vote, unhesitatingly increased CCC's borrowing power another $2 billion...
...business to sell peanuts at ball games, reasoned practical President Paul Fagan of the San Francisco Seals: "It costs us $20,000 every season to sweep up peanut shells." One day last week, underestimating the power of the peanut, Paul Fagan announced he was banning its sale in Seals Stadium this summer...
...next 24 hours Fagan's ears burned. Newspaper editorials and radio commentators from Seattle to San Diego denounced his decision and he got telegrams of protest from peanut planters. Swelling by the minute came the anguished cries of fans. Next day, Fagan admitted defeat. Said he: "The public wants peanuts. Peanuts the public shall have-large, fresh-roasted ones...
...plant has a yearly capacity of 50 million pounds of margarine, cooking and salad oil, peanut butter, mayonnaise and salad dressing. It is staffed by fewer than 70 Mexicans (and one American production superintendent). All raw materials will come from Mexican farms; the food products will be marketed within Mexico...