Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novelties by mail. Sometimes K. & S. mailed out unsolicited merchandise, gambled that enough people would send in their money to turn a profit. Often Koolish mailed out punchboards, furnished the merchandise prizes for the lucky winners. He spread out to candy (Chicago Mint Co.), counter devices such as peanut vendors and handgrip measurers (Pierce Tool & Manufacturing Co.), silk stockings and insurance. Koolish was so successful that he made a fortune now put at $4,382,348; he also built a fat record of complaints with Better Business Bureaus...
...where he has been looking with distaste at people ever since he was brought from French Equatorial Africa as a puny, 11-lb. baby, Bamboo, now a quarter-ton, 6-ft. evil-tempered gorilla, celebrated his 25th anniversary of confinement with a "birthday cake" made of cod liver oil, peanut mash and oyster shell, with a watermelon for dessert. The anniversary also chalked up a record. Bamboo, whether he likes it or not, is the only gorilla ever to survive a quarter-century in captivity...
...This pantie snatching is a case of sensualism . . ." Considering the source, it was a crushing rebuke, for on March 31, 1939, when an undergraduate himself, Gordon Southworth had made his contribution to the craze of the year by swallowing 67 live goldfish at one sitting-and had eaten a peanut butter sandwich afterward...
...candelabras, ended in Moscow. The big news was the negotiation by private British traders and the Chinese Communists of a $56 million barter deal-subject to later approval by the British Board of Trade. Britain would exchange textiles, chemicals and metals in return for Chinese coal, tea, soybeans and peanut oil. Talk of textiles was meant to tantalize the depressed cotton towns of Lancashire, but the whole deal rang a little phony. Obviously what mattered to the Chinese was the other 65% of the deal-the chemicals and the metals. "Our advice to members at present," said the F.B.I. (Federation...
Battery Watch. An electronic wrist watch that eliminates 30 parts found in ordinary watches and keeps "perfect" time was exhibited last week by the Elgin National Watch Co. of Elgin, Ill. The watch motor is the smallest ever built, runs for a year on a peanut-sized battery. Elgin plans to market the watch in about 18 months for $200-$500, expects it will be "some years" before the watch can be brought down to the $50 class...