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Cooking involves taking turns in preparing a buffetstyle breakfast, marketing, and cooking dinner--the one common meal of the day. Within budget limitations, co-op residents can usually afford to eat one egg, three glasses of milk and a glass of juice per day, as well as bread, peanut butter and jelly from their supply of staples. Some buy lunch in the Square--thereby considerably adding to their expenses--but most manage to get along on the house staples...
Blessing in Abundance. Bitingly, he pointed to a decline in cotton, wheat, corn and rice prices since 1952, but noted that peanut prices have gone up slightly. "This administration has a fine record on peanuts," he laughed. But the farm price slide constitutes a "farm depression." From the past, Stevenson dragged out a familiar Democratic tactic: run against Herbert Hoover. The last time the Republicans succeeded in keeping "the stock market up and the farm market down," said Stevenson, "was the last time they were in office, with Hoover at the helm...
...Tennessee to the culture of Africa, even the restrained British colonials of the area, long given to understatement, describe CABS as a "remarkable wireless indeed." It is probably the only radio station in a completely white-run land that broadcasts almost exclusively to blacks. It began as a peanut-whistle transmitter during the war to get military news around the colony. After the war it was continued in the hope of providing a link between the government and its millions of Negro subjects...
...merge with Beech-Nut Packing Co., third biggest U.S. chewing-gum maker (after Wrigley, American Chicle). The merger, still to be formally approved by directors and stockholders, was a logical move for both companies. Life Savers was eager to expand. Beech-Nut, which also makes baby food, coffee and peanut butter, had been unable to fatten its profit margin: only $3,747,000 last year, about 4% on $91,084,000 worth of sales, v. Life Savers' 13.5% net on a $20,382,000 gross. Said 73-year-old Edward John Noble, Life Savers' executive-committee chairman...
...named Nathaniel Leverone idly started feeding coins into the vending machines and got madder by the minute. "I weighed myself on a penny machine and found I weighed 205," recalls Leverone. "Another machine said 98. A chocolate machine gave me nothing, not even my penny back. Out of a peanut machine I got six moldy objects I wouldn't feed to a goat." Businessman Leverone got sore enough to go to work to teach the vending-machine business a lesson in honesty-and see if it would not also prove profitable. With $60,000 he founded Chicago...