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James has been backing up this philosophy for 50 years with such Hankins specialties as " Southern fried chicken, corn muffins, peanut-butter ice cream, and jumbo apple pies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Something for James | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...fantastic scene. Many were convinced that there would be small use for the dam's electricity, that only one generator -a little one-would be installed, and that the vast pile would be left, peeping away to itself down through the ages, like a stranded whale with a peanut whistle in its nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Land of the Big Blue River | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Waxy little John Maragon, once a brassy man about Washington with a White House pass and the ear of Major General Harry Vaughan, found last week that he had no influence with a federal jury. Even his attorney's plea that Maragon was only "a peanut vendor among princes" was no help. The jury found that he had lied to a Senate subcommittee in last summer's investigation of Washington five-percenters, found him guilty on two counts of perjury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Roasted Peanut Vendor | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Processing consists of heating the manure up to 1900 degrees, mixing it with cocoa beaus and peanut shells, and grinding, 25 tons of bovnug are produced every day. Princeton men think that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fertilizer Factory Fumes Nauseate Nassau Nostrils | 4/21/1950 | See Source »

That fight was not settled, but another farm fight was. Stealing out of the canebrake, Southern Congressmen pushed through a bill to allow cotton growers to sow 1,200,000 more acres of this already too plentiful crop, with guarantees of government price support. They also managed to increase peanut planting (another so-called "basic" crop) by 100,000 acres. What the farm program (a bipartisan measure) would cost this year no one could say. To take care of it, the House, by voice vote, unhesitatingly increased CCC's borrowing power another $2 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Deep in the Brush | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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