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...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...
With the diverse interests of the organization's members-from Maine potato growers to Florida citrus farmers, California orchardists to Wisconsin dairymen, and hog, peanut, cotton, livestock, wheat, rice and corn growers scattered in between-it is a wonder that Shuman is able to make a coherent presentation on anything. Yet surveys by farm magazines show that a majority of the Farm Bureau's members approve of the organization's policies as articulated by Shuman...
...that stage of the flight, the astronauts were sleeping about six hours in each 24 and eating three daily meals of bite-size, freeze-dried food, which they rehydrated with a water pistol. They munched on cold spaghetti and meatballs, chicken sandwiches, and peanut cubes. They were feeling fine. "Gordo and Pete," Dr. Berry called up, "you've had 100 hours now, and all the [health] data look really excellent. All the rates and pressures are still well within normal range." Even the "lack of blue-bag activity" did not bother the medical men; Conrad had had only...