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...mass attitude is changing from pessimism to optimism. Take a look at agriculture and the ordinary business of the country and compare them with the picayunish antics on the New York Stock Exchange. The whole country, it seems, is watching a little group of speculators in Wall. Street-a peanut stand affair magnified out of all importance. Damn it all, it's not what the crowd in Wall Street thinks that controls. It's what the mass of people think and feel and, take
...from me, the mass is feeling better! We know a damn sight more about what is going on than those fellows sitting at that security peanut stand in Wall Street. "Yes sir, it's not what you think, not what the peanutters in Wall Street think. Damn it, we're approaching business recovery. Prosperity, sure as the sun, will rise tomorrow morning. . . . But for God's sake, keep politics out of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. We're not giving any money away. We're loaning it on adequate security. We could have political bunk...
...Sample joke: "Don't you agree that the movies should be kept clean?" "Absolutely! Something should be done about these people who throw candy boxes and peanut shells on the floor...
...current assets against $2,228,000 current liabilities. Its beds and mattresses (Beautyrest, Deepsleep, Slumber King, Ace) are still leaders. An ace-in-the-hole which it has long threatened to play on the industry is Zalmite, a synthetic compound whose chief ingredients are said to be peanut shells, burlap & other waste materials. Zalmite was of course named for President Zalmon Gilbert Simmons. Although early in 1930 President Simmons was so shattered by the rude turn of events that a statement had to be issued that his health was ''not permanently impaired," he no longer shows any signs...
...inmates. He was appalled last spring (TIME, March 9) when National Diversified Co., which financed two of his pictures, was shown to have obtained its funds from fraudulent stock transactions, chiefly at the expense of credulous Catholics. Nicknamed "Dinty," Funnyman Dowling calls his 4-ft.-10-in. wife "Peanut," "Snook," "Brat," considers her "a great artist." She is the only woman whose name has appeared in lights above that of Ziegfeld Follies: Their income, from stage, screen and radio enterprises, is augmented by Funnyman Dowling's holdings in a Pasadena, Calif. sausage factory...