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...those about pollutants included. Scotch and beer have joined the list of potables that may contain dangerous chemicals. So has mother's milk, in which PCBS have turned up. Birth defects could be linked to caffeine from coffee or any source, it was reported just last month. Even peanut butter, as an occasional bearer of aflatoxin, has been flagged as a menace. Driving? Fasten the seat belt- unless discouraged by warnings that most of them do not work. On the road, even rest-room signs often gratuitously warn against VD. Flying? Remember that some pas sengers get ozone poisoning...
...proposed breaking them up and banning ads for presweetened cereals from Saturday morning's TV cartoon shows. An FTC-proposed rule warned that such ads were enticing children to "surreptitiously" sneak cereals into Mom's shopping cart. Washington wags quipped that the FTC would soon ban peanut butter because it stuck to the roof of the mouth...
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Until then there are still a few debased dollars to be made. Among the preparedness-minded entrepreneurs on hand is Dennis Anderson of Chicago, who represents Long-Life Foods' line of dehydrated applesauce granules and powdered peanut butter. "I don't own any guns and hand grenades, but I believe in having a year's supply of food." Jack Elkins, a nuclear-weapons physicist from Oak Ridge, Term., got so fired up at the June festival that he went home and invented a home oil refinery. It is about the size of a 55-gal. oil drum...
...both the warehouse and the bank, there were countless errors of both bookkeeping and judgment. Although short on capital, the Carters unwisely launched a massive expansion of the warehouse. From 1975 through 1977, they borrowed nearly $10 million to buy a huge new peanut sheller and enormous supplies of raw peanuts. But from the beginning, the warehouse consistently sold peanuts it was supposed to be holding as collateral for the loan. At one point in the spring of 1976, there were no peanuts at all on hand for two months, while the warehouse owed N.B.G. $1.1 million...