Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rugged Sespe Valley in the wild back country of California's Ventura County one day last week motored a Los Angeles Times newshawk, a photographer and Sidney B. Peyton, Fillmore citrus grower and able amateur ornithologist. Up and up for a mile they climbed a great hogback of white cliffs, jagged peaks, huge caves and waterfalls. When the narrow road ended they left their car, tramped off into the brush. After a few miles, shouts went up as they saw what they had come to see-a monstrous black bird soaring far overhead, its white underwings flashing...
Temperatures had been low for a fortnight in Southern California when one afternoon last week the Federal Fruit Frost Service sent out a warning that during the night the mercury would dive farther below freezing than it had for 24 years. Frantic men with torches went rushing through the citrus groves lighting great smudge pots, from which billowed smoke to protect the trees from frost. Before morning, temperatures in many places had fallen through the 18° mark set by the 1922 freeze which ruined half the citrus crop. A temperature of 16° was reported near Los Angeles...
...basis of a $112,000,000 crop last year, the Press talked of a $60,000,000 loss, overlooking the fact that a small crop brings higher prices, that a 60% crop loss in 1913 resulted in only a 20% dollar loss to the industry. But today the citrus crop is six or seven times as great as 25 years ago. One small freeze early in January caused damages estimated at $20,000,000, as much as the entire normal crop was worth in 1912. The Great Freeze of 1937 would probably go down in Southern California history as about...
...INSULT TO NOT ONLY EVERY NATIVE OF FLORIDA BUT A HOST OF FLORIDA'S BEST CITIZENS FROM NORTHERN STATES WHO CHOSE TO MAKE THEIR HOME HERE. IT IS CONCEDED HERE THAT MY JUDICIAL LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE RECORD OF 25 YEARS AND MY CO-OPERATION WITH THE CITRUS INDUSTRY AND CONSISTENT ADHERENCE TO DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES PLUS A HISTORICAL PIONEER FAMILY RECORD EXTENDING OVER 100 YEARS IN FLORIDA MAINLY CAUSED MY ELECTION. FLORIDA HAS BEEN HONORED IN BEING SELECTED AS THE HOME OF MANY SPLENDID MEN AND WOMEN FROM NORTHERN STATES WHOM YOU DUB PENURIOUS YANKEES BUT WHOM WE KNOW...
Significance- Simple was the explanation of Puerto Rican chagrin: 90% of the island's exports (chiefly sugar, tobacco, citrus fruits) go to the U. S. Most welcome of the island's imports are dollars from the U. S. Treasury. Independence would cut off both...