Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital, while under the mango trees, cruising Tampa-blue four-hole Buicks bore saffron-robed bonzes (Buddhist priests) to gilded pagodas. By an ingenious integration, American dredges were soon filling in ground for a Russian hospital, and U.S. farm machinery was being used to boost the corn and peanut crop for export to Red China...
...significant changes have taken place in the average U.S. diet in the last 30 years, says Jolliffe: the proportion of fat has gone up from 31% to 41%, and the proportion of saturated to unsaturated fats has increased still more sharply. This is because unsaturated fats (corn, cottonseed and peanut oils and some olive oils) are usually liquid at room temperature, so they are messier than the solid saturated fats (lard, suet, butter). As a result, manufacturers of shortening usually hydrogenate their unsaturated fats-by adding a couple of hydrogen atoms under heat and pressure. This turns part...
Cooking involves taking turns in preparing a buffetstyle breakfast, marketing, and cooking dinner--the one common meal of the day. Within budget limitations, co-op residents can usually afford to eat one egg, three glasses of milk and a glass of juice per day, as well as bread, peanut butter and jelly from their supply of staples. Some buy lunch in the Square--thereby considerably adding to their expenses--but most manage to get along on the house staples...
Blessing in Abundance. Bitingly, he pointed to a decline in cotton, wheat, corn and rice prices since 1952, but noted that peanut prices have gone up slightly. "This administration has a fine record on peanuts," he laughed. But the farm price slide constitutes a "farm depression." From the past, Stevenson dragged out a familiar Democratic tactic: run against Herbert Hoover. The last time the Republicans succeeded in keeping "the stock market up and the farm market down," said Stevenson, "was the last time they were in office, with Hoover at the helm...
...Tennessee to the culture of Africa, even the restrained British colonials of the area, long given to understatement, describe CABS as a "remarkable wireless indeed." It is probably the only radio station in a completely white-run land that broadcasts almost exclusively to blacks. It began as a peanut-whistle transmitter during the war to get military news around the colony. After the war it was continued in the hope of providing a link between the government and its millions of Negro subjects...