Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this year, grass-roots revolts have shelved Senators Frank Lausche of Ohio and Thomas Kuchel of California. Now a similar syndrome threatens Oklahoma Senator Mike Monroney, 66, a 30-year Capitol Hill veteran and his state's senior member of Congress...
...front of one of those ultrachic, applesauce-green beach houses that line the Pacific Coast Highway at Malibu. The sun is so bright that I'm convinced it's bleaching the blue right out of the new pullover I'd bought only that morning to distract California eyes from a bad case of East Coast pallor...
...across the country, Maryland broilers destined for Campbell chicken-noodle soup were in danger of turning leathery. At its plant in Paris, Tex., the company's output of Franco-American spaghetti products was running at least 50% below normal. But tomatoes were far and away the biggest casualties. California tomatoes intended for Campbell cans withered on the vine. Ohio patches went unpicked, and migrant workers hungrily moved on. Around Campbell's tomato-red brick home plant in Camden, N.J., the rich blaze of overripe fruit faded as mold crawled across the humid fields...
...millions of cans, botanists have been working for years on different strains of Lycopersicon esculentum. Last week the soup-tomato crop was ripening right on time, as the scientists intended, but for once its punctuality was a disaster. Just when the bumper crop was ready to be picked from California to New Jersey, the Campbell Soup Co. found itself saddled with a strike...
...estimated that the ruin could reach 80% within the next two weeks. Campbell's 250 contract farmers in southern New Jersey, a group of whom has sued two unions for damage because of the strike, grow nearly 40% of the area's 21,000-acre crop. In California, where rotting tomatoes could result in a loss of well over $4,000,000 if the strike persists, farmers called on President Johnson to invoke the Taft-Hartley law to stop the shutdown. The biggest losers of all are the migrant workers. Thousands of them were stranded without...