Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nostalgic golden days of 1909-14. But it was not long before the law covered almost everything that springs from the earth and a goodly share of the products that are raised above it (e.g., eggs, butter, cheese, hogs, etc.). Such operators as tung-nut raisers, linseed growers and peanut producers got their products into the parity money, although nobody knew why in Ceres' name they were basic to the U.S. economy. The big engine spewed subsidies in crazy profusion. Worst of all, programs intended to lessen the farmer's losses from surpluses ended in increasing the surpluses...
...have always felt that pigeons were fat and predatory birds, not above sneaking a peanut out from under an innocent squirrel to benefit their position in life. Anyone who has seen a group of pigeons strutting in front of a public building must realize that their motives are not entirely innocent; more than that, pigeons have not shown the same concern for their human masters as have other animals. When was the last time a pigeon rescued a small child from drowning? When was the last time a pigeon's cries awakend the prostrate occupants of a gas-filled room...
James has been backing up this philosophy for 50 years with such Hankins specialties as " Southern fried chicken, corn muffins, peanut-butter ice cream, and jumbo apple pies...
...fantastic scene. Many were convinced that there would be small use for the dam's electricity, that only one generator -a little one-would be installed, and that the vast pile would be left, peeping away to itself down through the ages, like a stranded whale with a peanut whistle in its nose...
Waxy little John Maragon, once a brassy man about Washington with a White House pass and the ear of Major General Harry Vaughan, found last week that he had no influence with a federal jury. Even his attorney's plea that Maragon was only "a peanut vendor among princes" was no help. The jury found that he had lied to a Senate subcommittee in last summer's investigation of Washington five-percenters, found him guilty on two counts of perjury...