Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that matter. Conspiracy abounds. Takeover conspiracies. Undue influence conspiracies. Creamy peanut butter conspiracies. Extra. Read all about it. Discredited former vice-crook-president charges Jewishes with Zionist sympathies and media control. That's just the cover story. Inside, how (in not so many words) the re-accredited former seed salesman from Plains creamed his way into New York Times headlines, and Memphis-blues-cooed his wormy fishhook into the tangled pickle that is Hunter Thompson's heart...
Glass Jars. Peanut farming has become a highly mechanized business. Beginning in late April, mechanical planters insert seed peanuts into the soil. Though many city dwellers may think peanuts grow inside glass jars, they actually burgeon underground, like potatoes. Four or five months after planting, a machine called a "digger-shaker-inverter" trundles over the field cutting under the plant, lifting it from the soil, shaking off clinging dirt and placing it back on the ground to allow the peanut pods to dry partially. Finally, a peanut combine picks up the plants and separates the mature pods...
Campaign Issue. Carter's operation is about average-sized. On 241 acres, he grows seed peanuts, all of which are sold to other farmers. His warehousing business buys peanuts from other farmers for sale to manufacturers. Nonetheless, Carter's business has become a potential campaign issue. The reason: an anachronistic price-support program that insulates peanut farmers from market risks and enables them to profit at the expense of the public purse...
...Seed Viruses. The doubts have been magnified by the fact that not a single new case of swine flu has been found since the strain (ominously similar to the 1918-19 virus) was identified in several hundred G.I.s at Fort Dix, N.J., earlier this year. Even Dr. Edwin D. Kilbourne of New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine, a leading proponent of the Ford program, concedes that the Fort Dix outbreak could have been a "freak occurrence." Complicating matters further, the vaccine, grown in fertilized eggs from "seed" viruses developed in Kilbourne's lab, has been only...
...Seed Displeases...