Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caddigan solemnly avers that Captain Video, sponsored by Power House Candy Bar and Skippy Peanut Butter, has an educational bent: "It sets up in a child's mind the idea of what electronics...
...hero, the clear-eyed Hopalong. Black Hopalong Cassidy shirts and Hopalong Cassidy pants were simple necessities; the more fashionable put on Hopalong Cassidy pajamas to sleep in a Hopalong Cassidy bed, had Hopalong Cassidy wallpaper (which outsold every design in the U.S. this year), ate Hopalong Cassidy cookies and peanut butter and rode a Hopalong Cassidy bicycle (which has handle bars shaped like steer horns...
...growth was just beginning. Mindful of George's early success with the baking powder, the brothers decided they could sell even cheaper by making still more of their goods. They started "Quaker Maid" factories to make A & P's own "Ann Page" preserves, peanut butter, etc. They set up their own American Coffee Corp. to buy direct from the growers in Brazil and Colombia. Still trying to eliminate middlemen, they set up their own Atlantic Commission Co. to buy the stores' produce. They started their own bakeries, candy and pastry shops to turn out everything from...
...wife. Molly was a good woman. All our friends thought she was a wonderful wife. I suppose she was [but] whatever I would say to her, she would talk about something else ... 'Is supper ready, Molly?' [I would ask]. 'I'm going to try using peanut oil instead of olive oil as a base for my salad dressing,' she would say ... So I decided on the spur of the moment I was really going to make her say yes or no. I said: 'Molly, I'm going to punch you in the nose...
...Aside from military installations, they are the great cities with massed industry such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Los Angeles. Washington is another obvious target. Small cities (below 100,000 pop.) are unlikely targets unless they house a plant making critical war supplies (bomb-sights, roller bearings, "peanut" tubes for proximity fuses...