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...elephant trainer who has lost his elephant and must get through his act using a frog instead. The trainer looms over the little fellow, urging him through his paces with a whip, trying to get the frog to perform such evergreen elephant stunts as Roll Over and Find the Peanut...
...Doody Show in 1947, redesigned its gravel-voiced, freckle-faced principal and colleagues, Dilly-Dally and Phineas T. Bluster, and pulled Howdy's strings through countless squabbles and seltzer battles with Buffalo Bob Smith and Clarabell until 1960, when the network dropped the program and disbanded its vast peanut gallery of young fans...
Economic Boost. In its new report, the Washington panel laments that neglect. It emphasizes that jojoba-bean oil could "probably be used as a sperm oil substitute for the complete range of uses." Furthermore, the report notes that growing the dark, peanut-sized beans could provide an economic boost for the impoverished Indian reservations in the Southwest. The hardy, long-lived (up to 200 years) shrubs could readily be cultivated in desert land that has until now been almost totally unproductive. The panel conceded that the startup costs for a jojoba plantation would be high, but after the plants reach...
...United, States was accentuated by several other developments. The 1972 fish catch off the Peruvian coast was a failure, reducing the supply of protein meal available to European markets and in turn increasing the export demand for soybean and soybean meal in the United States. The failure of the peanut crop in South Asia and parts of Africa further contributed to the shortage of protein meals. The major devaluation of the dollar made the United States a particularly cheap place to acquire needed proteins and hence acted to increase the demand for an export of feed grains and soybean meal...
...spectator accorded the privilege of standing room status has some advantages, though. He is allowed, for instance, the rare opportunity to witness the game from all angles of Fenway Park, as he is constantly on the move, burning a trail of peanut shells from the left field foul line to the right field grandstand in search of a better place to sitter, stand. In so doing, he no doubt gets more exercise than the players...