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...plant and made). These new products are the key to Beech-Nut's rising profits, for today the cured meats account for less than 2% of earnings. Biggest money-maker is chewing gum, which Brother-in-law F. E. Barbour handles. Other big items are strained foods, coffee, peanut butter, soup. Dropped along the way are tomato juice (1940), biscuits (1940), ginger ale, fish bait...
...POCKETFUL OF CLUES-James R. Langham-Simon & Schuster ($2). Tough Detective Sammy Abbott, who has a morbid appetite for peanut butter on his ice cream, sees a ragamuffin giving the hotfoot to a park-bench sleeper. The sleeper does not twitch. In fact underneath his newspaper he has no head at all. A story of civic corruption in Santa Monica, with mayor dead and crooked politicians confounded...
...they had never sunk, or even stopped, a French ship escorted by war craft. According to the Vice Premier, the Vichy merchant marine had thus far brought through the British blockade, mostly from Africa, 7,000,000 bushels of grain; 363,000 tons of wine; 180,000 tons of peanut oil; 135,000 tons of fruit; 35,000 of sugar, 12,000 of cocoa, 5,000 of meat and 3,000 each of fish and rum. The reason why Britain let all this slip through was doubtless reluctance by Winston Churchill to risk a third bloody clash like those...
...most common order according to Richard Fellows '41, director of the Food sandwich. The most complicated order ever received is a sandwich which consisted of lettuce, tomato, bacon, peanut butter and mustard. The "meandering meatball" service was established by the Student Council in order to satisfy the wants of the night-owls who are not satisfied by the dining hall food...
White House Peanut Vendor Steve Vasilakos, who for 24 years has donated a day's gross receipts to the Red Cross, became a U. S. citizen, donated two days' gross by way of celebration...