On the New York Curb is listed the stock of a company engaged in manufacturing patented egg-containers. Another operates whaling vessels. Others make camel's hair goods, fountain pens, soft drinks, clocks, sheets, bathing suits. But never until last week was a company, devoted entirely to peanuts, represented upon a New York stock market. The peanut came to Wall Street with the listing on the Curb of Tom Huston Peanut Co.
Guiding this young (incorporated in 1928) company's affairs is its creator, youngish Tom Huston, publicized as "The Farmer Boy Who Became Peanut...
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