Word: armstrong
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Buddha & the Lemons. The man who carries most of the weight of the organization is a heavy-set grower named Paul S. Armstrong. 61, who looks like a benevolent Buddha. As general manager of Sunkist Growers, Inc. since 1931, Armstrong has the job of coordinating 175 little packing associations, each with its own packing plant, setting advertising and research policies, and devising new citrus products...
...Some of Armstrong's ideas have borne golden fruit. Sunkist was the first to can or bottle any kind of citrus product (orange juice) in 1933, and was the first to go into volume production for the retail market two years later. Today, Sunkist's processing business nets more than $36 million a year from juices and frozen concentrates. Even the waste is used to make such citrus byproducts as citrus pectins, citric acid and lemon oils. Florida grows more oranges, but California and Arizona have the lemon business practically to themselves. Sunkist grows 82% of the nation...
...getting smaller over the past few years. Sunkist's researchers are at work on the orange mystery, trying to discover if it is the smog, the lack of rain, or some unnamed malady that stunts the oranges. But Sunkist's 14,000 fruit growers are sure that Armstrong and his researchers will lick these problems, as they have others in the past...
Lowell and Kirkland soccer teams tied 1 to 1 in a playoff of a postponed game. The Deacons lost the services of Joe Elizade, who tore ligaments in the right knee. Dick Armstrong tallied the lone Kirkland goal on a penalty kick and Steole Commoner came back to tie the game with a second half Dudley goal...
...standoff. The game--which went to two overtimes--was marked by strong defensive playing by both teams. Dunster goalie Ken Rose and Kirkland goalie Al Gottschalk both stopped offensive challenges many times. Bob Walser kicked the Funster goal; Kirkland scored on a penalty kick booted by Dick Armstrong...