Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blossomed into a huge pyramid with a base of 14,000 growers and an apex of hired managers who run the business. Not many of Sunkist's growers own more than 15 acres apiece. But together they market about 75% of all the citrus fruit in California and Arizona-28,600,000 boxes of lemons, oranges and grapefruit each year-and run a $500 million business. After all expenses in its '51-52 season, Sunkist returned to growers a total of $167 million, and the co-op expects an increase of up to 20% when the figures...
...Neal: The instructions which I have received in regard to bacteriological warfare consisted of two lectures. One lecture was given at Luke Air Force Base, which is in the United States at Phoenix, Arizona, on December ist, 1951 . . . The second lecture was at K-46, the base of the 18th Fighter Bomber group in Korea here. This lecture was given on the 22nd of January...
...Arizona Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) faced up to a ticklish question after Governor J. Howard Pyle requested Presbyterian views: Should Arizona remove the state ban on the sale of liquor to Indians, as a step in establishing full civil rights for them? "I don't see how any Christian can say anything to the liquor traffic but 'No!' " cried the Rev. E. P. Smith, missionary from the Navaho reservation. But after short, sharp debate (and a score of abstentions), the synod recommended lifting the ban. Vote...
...Arizona state troopers moved in on the town of Short Creek and arrested almost all adults on the grounds...
...sales tax in Arizona, and that's one too many...