Word: pecans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House wing of the Capitol. He did not deny that he was "homesick for the old place." In a brighter mood, he pounded his small paunch. "Look at this waistline," he cried. "Know how I shaved off four inches this summer? Every day I went out to my pecan orchard and stooped over 125 times, picking up one nut each time. Say, that's great exercise...
...Pecans are grown in all but eleven States. They are kin to the hickory nut, whose popularity they supplanted. Vice President-elect John Nance Garner has six acres of pecan trees on his Texas ranch, and fortnight ago his Stuart pecans won first place at the West Texas Pecan Fair at Rising Star. His crop this year came to 1,000 lbs. Pound for pound, pecan meat is twice as nutritive as pork chops, five times as nutritive as veal. No other nut is so fatty. Southern cooks use pecans in their famed crisp pralines...
...pecan industry, busy last week moving the 1932 crop off to market, was not so busy that it' could overlook some bad-blood that had reached the spilling point. The-fight began last October when National Nut News published a letter from big Southland Pecan Co. of Columbus. Ga., attacking National Pecan Marketing Association, a Farm Board-sponsored cooperative, for being a Governmental agency in competition with citizens. The N. P. M. A. replied that it was grower-owned and controlled, borrowing money from the Farm Board only as it would from a bank. Last week Southland President Sidney...
...Pecan prices remained unchanged in Manhattan...
From the courthouse steps at Poplarville, Miss., short, scarred Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, stormy onetime Governor of Mississippi, watched a U. S. deputy marshal sell his $50,000 "dream house," 3,000-acre estate and 400-acre pecan orchard for $500 and court costs. Reason for the sale: to satisfy a judgment in favor of a bank receiver. Asked whether he would make a bid at the sale. Lawyer Bilbo snapped: "Will you supply the money...