Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators, is Senator Byrnes. The other, not so popular with the Senators but preferred by the President is Senator Barkley. Senator Barkley not yet majority leader nevertheless openly led the Administration's fight, rallying several more or less radically inclined freshmen Senators such as Schwartz of Wyoming and Pepper of Florida. He was credited with having been given the go-ahead signal by the White House...
...sandwich bag with a special compartment in the bottom for salt & pepper...
Years ago an astounding character named Garabed Bishirgian emerged from Armenia to gamble in rugs, caviar, tin and finally pepper with such success that he was known as the "Pepper King," threw parties which were the awe of London and owned a model farm in Surrey on which he raised 600 thoroughbred pigs even fatter and greasier than their owner. In 1935 "Pepper King" Bishirgian joined with his friend "Tin King" John Henry Charles Ernest Howeson in an attempt to corner the pepper market. When a bumper crop threatened their corner, they resorted to a fraudulent stock issue which brought...
...guard against the fluctuations which characterize Mincing Lane pepper trading, margins are closely regulated on the New York Pepper Futures Market, daily fluctuations are limited to 1? per lb. per day and pepper stocks must be kept in licensed warehouses subject to inspection. The trading unit is 33,600 lb. of Lampong (Netherlands East Indies) black pepper, with Aleppy and Tellicherry (British India) as optional deliveries. Pepper prices are currently very low (6? per lb.) because last year's crop was the largest in history (87,000 tons were shipped) and there is now a glut of pepper...
...Aside from those who buy it as a long-term investment or, currently, as a hedge against inflation, main pepper purchasers are the grinders, who maintain "spice mills" all over the U. S. Packers and canners take the balance of the 18,000 tons used annually by the U. S. Not to be confused with black or white pepper is red pepper, cayenne or paprika, which comes from a different plant, has small volume, little speculative value, is not traded on pepper exchanges...