Word: peas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long voyage through a long fog, there comes a time when visibility improves, when men can again take a sight on the sun and calculate their day of making port. Last week, after nearly six months in a legislative pea soup. Congress suddenly reached the fringes of the murk. The gentleman from Texas said to the gentleman from Oregon and the gentleman from Oregon said to the gentleman from Maine: "It looks like we might go home about the 15th of July." Then they all said to one another: "But if we're finishing by then...
...Pea-Tasting. The grading of canned peas has long been a matter of human taste. Dr. Zoltan Imre Kertesz of the New York State division of food chemistry reported that the proportion of peas soluble in alcohol was a much better index of grade, that many a canner was ready to replace human tasters with alcoholic robots...
...Last autumn the American Institute of Food Distribution estimated that the 1934 tomato pack would be up some 20%, the corn pack 20%, the pea pack 15%, the string bean pack 9%. The Alaska salmon pack was the biggest on record. All during summer and autumn Drought dropped into the can-makers' laps orders for hundreds of millions of cans for the meat which the Government was tinning for the unemployed. Last week Continental Can Co. announced that 1934 had been the best year in history, with profits of $10,707,000 against...
Science has given housewives the mechanical dishwasher, the tireless cooker, the cherry stoner, the self-agitating cocktail shaker, the cast-iron pea sheller. but not until last month did U. S. housewives have a machine to make cream...
Colgate's pea-&-shell game baffled Rutgers...