Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suave M.C. who is continually introducing what turns out to be himself. The self is sometimes a zany who chatters away-in a manner that eludes cold print -about one relative who invented a cure for which there is no disease, and about another who crossed the Idaho potato with a sponge-the result hardly tastes very good, but "it can hold an awful lot of gravy." The self is oftener an accomplished pianist who mutters as he plays and often denounces what he is playing, who performs all the roles in a Mozart opera, or .offers Happy Birthday...
Short-changed on his fishing, Ike consoled himself with another favorite pastime-cooking. He took full responsibility for the party's meals, noisily clanged the big outdoor dinner bell whenever chow was on. (One day's menu: breakfast-flapjacks and sausage; lunch-potato salad and Ike's special vegetable soup, which takes two days to make; dinner-trout and roasting ears.) In between meals, he loafed around, sometimes worked on a new oil painting-a mountain landscape...
...also led the movement to establish the new German capital in his native Rhineland. "The future capital of Germany should be located among the vineyards," said he, "not in potato fields." One by one, Adenauer ticked off the other possibilities: Berlin-"a city where the monkeys still swing from the trees"; Frankfurt-"too immoral." Adenauer plumped for Bonn, which, conveniently, was within easy commuting distance from his home in Rhöndorf. As usual, he got what he wanted...
...hasty counteraction. Dieting has already helped cut per capita consumption of wheat flour from 157 Ibs. pre-war to 130 Ibs. a year, and the worried American Bakers Association is spending a good part of its $1,000,000 advertising budget to plug bread as a reducing food. Annual potato consumption dropped from 132 Ibs. per capita in 1939 to 104 Ibs. last year...
Carver had one great objective: to free the South from industrial bondage to the North. With tools originally assembled from scrapheap oddments, he developed more than 300 synthetic products from peanuts, including cheese, soap, flour and linoleum, and more than 100 products from the sweet potato. "I go into the laboratory," he once said, "and God tells me what...