Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge Potatoes" are now selling for $3 a peck,* f. o. b. Ply mouth, Vt. Last week New York newspapers contained an advertisement of the Dimock Potato Corp. of Bellows Falls, Vt., which said: "A thrill for your dinner guests. . . . This unusual, long-to-be-remembered novelty-baked potatoes de luxe-grown on the farm of Calvin Coolidge's boyhood...
Perhaps, these enterprising potato potentates have unwittingly furnished Calvin Coolidge with a campaign slogan for 1928. "Coolidge and the Big Baked Potato...
...Sacco was a clever young fellow and could soon get to be a prosperous citizen, maybe own a factory of his own some day, live by other men's work. But Sacco, working in his garden in the early morning before the whistles blew, hilling beans, picking off potato bugs, worried about things. He too was an anarchist...
...Spaniards first met this valuable esculent near Quito onetime Peruvian possession, now capital of Ecuador. In 1553, a Seville chronicle mentions it under the name of "battata" or "papa." Later the potato spread to Italy and Belgium, where it did not "take." In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh planted it on his estate near Cork, Ireland, where is multiplied...
...financial aspect of this deal delighted him nowhere nearly so much as the plant-breeding experiment it involved. Back in Massachusetts he had made a beginning in this line by discovering a seed ball of the Early Rose potato, which rarely bears seed. Continued experiments with this seed ball's progeny resulted in the Burbank potato, which has since spread to gardens all over the globe and is said to have exerted a greater influence on humanity's food supply than any other single plant...