Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry turned. "Are you trying to tell me I can't have jelly with my toast?" he said. He continued spooning apple jelly, calmly and deliberately, and when there wasn't any more apple jelly he began on the peanut butter...
...strong civil rights plank at next year's Democratic national convention; 2) renew and increase their efforts to dilute the authority of Virginia's Representative Howard Smith, leader of the Southern bloc and chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee; and 3) refuse to back peanut, tobacco and cotton subsidies, along with other legislation dear to the South. "Cotton," snapped Iowa Democrat Neal Smith, "was hurt worse than labor in that vote...
...Peanut Eater. The personal attention he gives his customers helps Nudie gross $300,000 a year with his high-class ranch wear. Not only does he dress 80% of all movie and TV western stars; he also rakes in three-quarters of the other tailor-made western clothing business in the U.S. Says he: "This is a far cry from P.S. 156 in Brooklyn." It is so far that Nudie, now 56, is the only person who remembers his real name. Whatever it is, he guards it fanatically. He is Nudie, even on his checks...
...small talents, fighting for as little as a dollar a bout. He learned the rudiments of tailoring in a cousin's shop, then headed West and worked as an extra in Wallace Reid pictures. "Every scene had to have a bunch of people in the background eating peanuts," he remembers. "I was hired as a peanut eater." When the peanuts palled, Nudie bummed his way back to Manhattan and went into Specialty Costumes ("What that means is that I was in the G-string business...
...could actually increase its market by concentrating more on skim milk, low-fat protein milk and plain cottage cheese -good for all ages. As for meat, the most expensive cuts of beef are the fattest, but the biggest difference can be made in pork. By feeding hogs soybean or peanut meal, but not fattening them beyond about 180 lbs., say Keys and wife, .the farmer could produce flavorful meat, and its accompanying fat would have the virtue of being relatively unsaturated...