Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Libyan money because he could not obtain loans elsewhere and was running short of funds. "I've spent all my time the past year in the drunk tank or the grand jury," he said, referring to an earlier, seven-month investigation into the tangled finances of the family peanut warehousing business that found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing...
During the Main Street stroll, a little girl gaped at the famed peanut farmer. "You're so changed," she said...
...helium. Dangling from the balloon was an 11-ft. by 5-ft. red, white and blue gondola. It carried the Andersons and 5,000 lbs. of ballast and supplies, including ten radios, a folding cot, a backgammon board and a week's worth of fried chicken, peanut butter and chocolate-chip cookies...
Unthinkable? Less so in an era when a movie actor and a peanut farmer are front runners for the presidency. "Oh, yes, I've daydreamed about it," Cronkite says. "As I've daydreamed about sailing around the world-or rather, not as much, because I have thought of sailing around the world...
...personal income tax return puts his net worth at $893,304.35, or nearly $113,000 less than in 1978. In part, his own economic policies are to blame for the tumble. Like other Americans, he was savaged by soaring interest rates; payments on a peanut sheller, which are pegged at 1½ percentage points above the prime rate (now about 20%), caused him to suffer a $79,609.52 loss from the family business that is held in trust for him by his Georgia pal, Charles Kirbo...