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...York Curb is listed the stock of a company engaged in manufacturing patented egg-containers. Another operates whaling vessels. Others make camel's hair goods, fountain pens, soft drinks, clocks, sheets, bathing suits. But never until last week was a company, devoted entirely to peanuts, represented upon a New York stock market. The peanut came to Wall Street with the listing on the Curb of Tom Huston Peanut...
...Peanut Butter...
...Canberra last week Australian canaries were beginning to feel the pinch of singing on Australian seed instead of the imported sort to which they have been used. The embargo on chutney, peanut butter, cigarets and wine means that "Major Grey's Chutney," "BeechNut Peanut Butter," "Abdullah Cigarets" and "Mumm's Cordon Rouge" are totally excluded from Australia. It is not a question of scaling a tariff wall. This is an absolute embargo: "Peanut butter shall not pass!" The exclusion is as rigid against products of Mother England as against those of the U. S. or China...
...Francis Gano Benedict of the Carnegie Institution was, with his wife, Cornelia Golay Benedict, the author of this peanut theory. They reached their conclusions after a series of tests on six subjects, observed under the following conditions: 1) in a state of mental vacuity; 2) with their attention being called periodically by electrical signals; 3) solving complex problems without aid of pencil or paper (multiplication of 43 x 87 was one problem...
...conclusion reached by Dr. & Mrs. Benedict was that the popular notion that the calory demand of the brain is proportionate to its labor, is false. An oyster cracker or a half-peanut would sustain Albert Einstein's brain while doing intensive work on his field equations for one hour, the same number of calories would furnish a parlor maid only energy enough to dust a desk for five minutes...