Word: almaden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right to represent workers at the mammoth Di Giorgio ranch in an election monitored by the American Arbitration Association. Both Di Giorgio and Schenley have since sold their table-grape holdings, however, and Chavez's only contracts now are with wine producers: Gallo, Christian Brothers, Masson, Almaden, Franzia Brothers and Novitiate...
Hard drinks were not served, but punch and champagne - California Almaden-flowed adequately. After the final Johnson years, when business suits were the accepted dress at congressional receptions, the legislators seemed eager to preen in black tie and whatever. Senator Strom Thurmond showed up in a rusty red dinner jacket that about matched his hair. Senator Jacob Javits sported what he jokingly referred to as his "basic black by Bill Blass...
...expect mercury's price to climb, at least in the long run. Though the U.S. is the world's No. 1 mercury consumer, the nation produces less than a third of the metal it needs. It depends heavily on imports from Spain, whose 2,400-year-old Almaden mine, the world's richest, was first worked by invading Phoenicians. Both U.S. and world demand are growing faster than production, partly because of mercury's increasing use as a catalyst in the making of chlorine and caustic soda for the expanding chemical, paper and plastics industries...
...though J. Edgar Hoover rises early to cook Sunday-morning popovers, Almaden Vineyards President Louis Benoist perfects his crab gumbo, or Actor Burgess Meredith spends hours concocting his "All Mighty Salad," the brunt of cooking and planning still remains the woman's task. Today's hostess, jealous of her favorite recipes, prefers to make them herself, even when she can well afford a cook or caterer. And the change in party and daily diet is nothing short of revolutionary...
Screw Caps. The vineyards of the premium producers-Almaden, Beaulieu, Beringer, Cresta Blanca. Inglenook, Korbel, Krug, Louis Martini, Masson, Wente, et al.-are concentrated chiefly in the Napa Valley and coastal areas near San Francisco. Most own their own vineyards, bottle their table wine in the old traditional style of the good French winemakers, studiously disdaining such modern advances as concrete fermentation vats and screw-cap bottle tops. Their wine is labeled with the name of the grape from which it is made, so that buyers can approximate the European equivalent in a California product. In white wines, Pinot Chardonnay...