Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event-the Grand Challenge Cup-in which no U.S. crew was entered. Another race, for the Thames Challenge Cup, went to a U.S. schoolboy crew from Connecticut's Kent School. Kent's brawny crew (average weight: 174 Ibs.), which brought along its own supply of peanut butter and cooking fats, won easily by two lengths from Massachusetts' Tabor Academy...
Semantical interest was not the reason, but the $50,000 worth of prizes awarded weekly for six consecutive weeks by the peanut company in Wilkes Barre, Pa. Holt got a cigarette lighter for his eyestrain, but Harper came up a week ago with the number one award, a Hudson sedan...
Well they might be. Robbins not only makes the atomic ring (see cut) and the Mix compass, but it turns out some dozen similar gadgets (the Orphan Annie dog whistle, Captain Midnight's code ring, a compass ring for Shredded Wheat, a radar ring for Peter Pan Peanut Butter) for the major users of box-top premiums. Latest to come off the top-secret list: a "weather ring" for B. F. Goodrich. (A tiny sheet of litmus paper beneath a plastic lens turns pink in rainy weather, blue in fair...
Sideline Seat. Nowadays, Columnist Rose is waist-deep in the fanciest possible metaphors. At its best, his talk combines the shriller styles of E. E. Cummings, a nightspot headwaiter, P. T. Barnum and a Polo Grounds peanut vendor. But he flavors this potpourri with a cynical wit. "What people don't seem to see," he complains, "is the Billy who sits on the sidelines and laughs at the game...
Died. Amedeo Obici, 69, pint-sized (5 ft. 1 in.) giant of the peanut business; of uremic poisoning; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. An Italian immigrant, Obici at the turn of the century opened a Wilkes-Barre peanut stand which eventually grew into the huge Planters Nut & Chocolate...