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...cebus monkey in the San Diego zoo, says Beach, showed rational business aptitude by offering sticks or pebbles to visitors who were rich in peanuts or candy. The enterprise of this monkey named "Trader" was so successful that he nearly died of overeating. At last he was removed to the controlled economy of an experimental cage and given poker chips to trade with. When he paid out a red chip, he got a bit of orange. A blue chip bought a peanut; a white chip a slice of banana. Green chips were worth a slice of bread (which Trader...
Trader learned quickly which chips had monkey value. He traded the white (banana) chips oftener than any other. Runner-up: the blue (peanut) chips...
...original claim holders sold out early. Writes Lewis: "When Alvah Gould sold, for less than $500, his half interest in the Gould & Curry, he boasted of having duped his fellow Californians; but his claim yielded 15 millions, and Gould ended his days operating a peanut stand in Reno...
...event-the Grand Challenge Cup-in which no U.S. crew was entered. Another race, for the Thames Challenge Cup, went to a U.S. schoolboy crew from Connecticut's Kent School. Kent's brawny crew (average weight: 174 Ibs.), which brought along its own supply of peanut butter and cooking fats, won easily by two lengths from Massachusetts' Tabor Academy...
Semantical interest was not the reason, but the $50,000 worth of prizes awarded weekly for six consecutive weeks by the peanut company in Wilkes Barre, Pa. Holt got a cigarette lighter for his eyestrain, but Harper came up a week ago with the number one award, a Hudson sedan...