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...coconut, was exhibited last week in Florida by Botanist David Fairchild. One of a dozen found in 9,000,000 East Indian coconuts, the pearl began (scientists believe) when a sprout was unable to force its way through one of the three pores in a germinating nut. Like a sand grain in an oyster, the sprout was then encrusted with layers of calcium carbonate-even though chemists have never found this compound in either the nut's milk or kernel...
...Nelson's last point was the oldest, toughest nut-subcontracting-and he saved his toughest talk for it. "There isn't a single big producer who can't do more than he is doing now if he subcontracts," he cried. "Industry has been lazy on this whole subject. . . ." Despite some Washington bright ideas, Don Nelson swore the subcontracting nut would have to be cracked by industry itself. The man who cracks it will be the MacArthur of the home front...
...travel from town to town with carnivals." Ferocious Mr. Rogers and suave Mr. Dufour work their clients after the classical manner of detective teams, one rubber-hosing, the other soft-soaping. One of the more lucrative of their develop ments is the Aboriginal Village, on which the "nut" (overhead) is small "once the concessionaire has learned the fact, unreported by anthropologists, that all primitive peoples exist by preference on a diet of hamburger steak." Still more reliable are freaks, the more nauseating the better. At Flushing their most stunning attractions were: a man who held up his socks with thumbtacks...
...form of a 13-second "singing spot" transcription, the first of these commercials will come at 4:45 o'clock, on the daily "Swing Out" program. The contract runs for 13 weeks, and is sponsored by the Beech-Nut chewing gum concern...
Most Americans have not heard of the babassu nut since September 1936, when Alf Landon attacked this "jungle product" as an example of the riffraff being let into the country by Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade treaties. It grows in Brazil and its oil, used in margarine, competed with U.S. butter. Alf's "babassu speech" was a major milestone on his route to Kansas. But last week the babassu nut came into...