Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highway, happiest dreamer last week was probably Richard Albert Tewkesbury, 34, skinny, frail, 112-lb., 5 ft. 3 in. algebra instructor at Harding High School in Charlotte, N.C. "Tooks," as he is known to the students who tower over him, is mild, puny, deep-voiced and bashful; he has peanut-sized biceps, and looks wan. Any critical Southern mammy would describe him as "peaked." He is also lionhearted, stubborn, iron-nerved, grimly determined, and a hero...
...somewhat weary, harassed countenance of many men who have endured and survived Broadway and Hollywood show business. Born in London, he came to the U.S. at 14, was Food Administrator Herbert Hoover's office boy during World War I. He has also been a stable boy, peanut salesman, barker and roustabout for Snapp Brothers' Circus, paid promoter of theatricals on Long Island and in Yellowstone Park. As a Hollywood press agent he plugged Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd, George Arliss, Lupe Velez, Hedy Lamarr. During the past decade he press-agented more than 50 night clubs, in 1936 opened...
...plant and made). These new products are the key to Beech-Nut's rising profits, for today the cured meats account for less than 2% of earnings. Biggest money-maker is chewing gum, which Brother-in-law F. E. Barbour handles. Other big items are strained foods, coffee, peanut butter, soup. Dropped along the way are tomato juice (1940), biscuits (1940), ginger ale, fish bait...
...POCKETFUL OF CLUES-James R. Langham-Simon & Schuster ($2). Tough Detective Sammy Abbott, who has a morbid appetite for peanut butter on his ice cream, sees a ragamuffin giving the hotfoot to a park-bench sleeper. The sleeper does not twitch. In fact underneath his newspaper he has no head at all. A story of civic corruption in Santa Monica, with mayor dead and crooked politicians confounded...
...they had never sunk, or even stopped, a French ship escorted by war craft. According to the Vice Premier, the Vichy merchant marine had thus far brought through the British blockade, mostly from Africa, 7,000,000 bushels of grain; 363,000 tons of wine; 180,000 tons of peanut oil; 135,000 tons of fruit; 35,000 of sugar, 12,000 of cocoa, 5,000 of meat and 3,000 each of fish and rum. The reason why Britain let all this slip through was doubtless reluctance by Winston Churchill to risk a third bloody clash like those...