Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peanut Butter...
...Their memories are less of Benchley than of Berkeley, and, in the absence of much protest humor, they have concentrated on deliberate absurdities that refuse to deal with the adult world. Such were the elephant jokes (What do you get when you cross an elephant with a jar of peanut butter? A peanut that never forgets or an elephant that sticks to the roof of your mouth) and the more recent grape jokes. (What's purple and hums? An electric grape. Why does it hum? It doesn't know the words). Another collegiate fad was the Tom Swifties...
...President Johnson. As a result, Johnson, who had criticized a steel-price increase early last week, was criticized for refusing to step into the New York situation even though Quill's outlandish demands went miles beyond his guidelines. Quill's reaction to the Transit Authority offer: "Peanut package!" He walked out of the negotiations...
...second paper, the Chicago Daily News, which he bought for $24 million from the Knight Newspapers in 1959, was not making as much money as the Sun-Times, but it was gaining in reputation. "I think newspapers should speak to the orchestra seats as well as to the peanut gallery," Publisher Field once said, and from both places, Chicago seemed to be listening...
...Peanuts & Petroleum. Even before Britain withdrew five years ago, Nigeria had a flourishing trade, exporting peanuts, cotton, palm kernels and cocoa and importing in exchange manufactured goods, foods and tobacco The first native millionaires made their money by competing with the white man for his trade. Among Nigeria's richest businessmen is Alhaji Sanusi Dantata 46, who buys and ships much of the rich Kano region's peanut crop. Dantata's agents last year bought 84,000 tons from small farmers, paid with traditional handfuls of coin counted out in dusty village squares. Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu...