Word: asparagus
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...committeemen had gone into the valley last November to investigate a two-year-old strike of the National Farm Labor Union (A.F.L.) against the biggest ranch of them all, the n,000-acre Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., producers of $5.9 million worth of grapes, plums, potatoes and asparagus each year. The union complained formally that Di Giorgio had refused to negotiate, then treated the Congressmen to its own 25-minute propagan da film called "Poverty in the Valley of Plenty." The camera poked into sordid one-room shacks, lingered on a leaky shower that served 25 families, studied hollow-eyed...
Outside the house, under red-blossomed camellia trees, old women were cutting dandelions for spring greens-and coarser weeds for nanny goats carefully tethered by the front porch. Nearby were bamboo groves where old plants are grown for fuel and new shoots are cut like asparagus in April...
Hard-Headed. In Champaign, Ill., John L. Franklin had given up trying to raise asparagus after three years, built an asphalt drive across the patch, this spring discovered sprouts cracking through the pavement...
...plants (Berlin, London, Buenos Aires, Paris, Zurich, Montreal and Rio de Janeiro) are also working at capacity. In foreign trade, Spang had gotten around the lack of dollars and other currency troubles by a system of "compensation trading." Thus, Swiss-made blades are being exchanged in Italy for tomatoes, asparagus, and strawberries, in Austria for wood, in Czechoslovakia for glass. The goods are then sold in Switzerland for francs and the francs exchanged for U.S. dollars to buy raw materials for Gillette's foreign factories...
...Great Hall at Grosvenor House as their temple." The Queen Mother was sponsoring Britain's first Antique Dealers' Fair since 1938. And Queen Elizabeth had sent along four fine old tureens-in the form of a cabbage, a melon, a lemon, and a bunch of asparagus-to crown the show...