Word: peanuts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...business to sell peanuts at ball games, reasoned practical President Paul Fagan of the San Francisco Seals: "It costs us $20,000 every season to sweep up peanut shells." One day last week, underestimating the power of the peanut, Paul Fagan announced he was banning its sale in Seals Stadium this summer...
...next 24 hours Fagan's ears burned. Newspaper editorials and radio commentators from Seattle to San Diego denounced his decision and he got telegrams of protest from peanut planters. Swelling by the minute came the anguished cries of fans. Next day, Fagan admitted defeat. Said he: "The public wants peanuts. Peanuts the public shall have-large, fresh-roasted ones...
...plant has a yearly capacity of 50 million pounds of margarine, cooking and salad oil, peanut butter, mayonnaise and salad dressing. It is staffed by fewer than 70 Mexicans (and one American production superintendent). All raw materials will come from Mexican farms; the food products will be marketed within Mexico...
...China is no Balkan peanut; it has a population almost twice as great as that of Russia itself. 2) It is an Oriental culture, whereas the Sovict Union has become steadily Westernized. 3) There is a great deal of rugged territory between Moscow and Peking, and remote control does not work very well when it is that remote. 4) The Chinese liberated themselves in the last war; there was no Russian Army to parade in the streets and insure "free" elections...
...Peanut vendors and ticket-hawking gamins are unhappy, and so are the freshmen who'll be going to Saturday classes for the first time in their lives...