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...growth was just beginning. Mindful of George's early success with the baking powder, the brothers decided they could sell even cheaper by making still more of their goods. They started "Quaker Maid" factories to make A & P's own "Ann Page" preserves, peanut butter, etc. They set up their own American Coffee Corp. to buy direct from the growers in Brazil and Colombia. Still trying to eliminate middlemen, they set up their own Atlantic Commission Co. to buy the stores' produce. They started their own bakeries, candy and pastry shops to turn out everything from...
...wife. Molly was a good woman. All our friends thought she was a wonderful wife. I suppose she was [but] whatever I would say to her, she would talk about something else ... 'Is supper ready, Molly?' [I would ask]. 'I'm going to try using peanut oil instead of olive oil as a base for my salad dressing,' she would say ... So I decided on the spur of the moment I was really going to make her say yes or no. I said: 'Molly, I'm going to punch you in the nose...
...Aside from military installations, they are the great cities with massed industry such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Los Angeles. Washington is another obvious target. Small cities (below 100,000 pop.) are unlikely targets unless they house a plant making critical war supplies (bomb-sights, roller bearings, "peanut" tubes for proximity fuses...
...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...