Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most common order according to Richard Fellows '41, director of the Food sandwich. The most complicated order ever received is a sandwich which consisted of lettuce, tomato, bacon, peanut butter and mustard. The "meandering meatball" service was established by the Student Council in order to satisfy the wants of the night-owls who are not satisfied by the dining hall food...
White House Peanut Vendor Steve Vasilakos, who for 24 years has donated a day's gross receipts to the Red Cross, became a U. S. citizen, donated two days' gross by way of celebration...
...Black Lion has been a teacher, soldier, politician and peanut-farmer. He hates Communists. In a recent debate on the fate of the Communist Deputies, he roared: "What France really needs is toimport a few more good anthropophagites like me and we would eat 'em alive." As a good Mohammedan, he has three wives and seven legitimate children. "Two wives," says Diouf, "are a necessity for every normal man. A third is apt to be expensive and thefourth is a downright luxury." He loves practical jokes, such as collecting a huge crowd of Frenchmen on the banks...
This week 12,000 men begin ringing the doorbells of U. S. business, and, unlike book salesmen, they cannot be kicked out. At the executives of great corporations as well as at flabbergasted peanut vendors they will fire their questions. What is your business? Are you incorporated? What were your total receipts during 1939? Cost of materials? Wage payments? How much did you sell on credit? These snoopers are taking the business, manufacturing, mines & quarries section of the Sixteenth Decennial Census of the U. S. The population, housing, and farm sections will be taken during April...