Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scion of the wealthy copper mining family which founded Douglas, Ariz. "Lew" Douglas was graduated from Amherst in 1916, studied metallurgy at M. I. T. With the gist Division he went overseas, a lieutenant of field artillery cited by General Pershing for bravery. Home and married, he took to citrus ranching, first tasted public life in the Arizona Legislature, got himself elected to Congress as his State's lone Representative in 1926. This week he rounded out his third term. A lean, wiry youngster with a quick grin and a ready tongue, Representative Douglas shot up to a commanding...
...vortex. Lesser villages were torn from the hillsides. In all, 217 Puerto Ricans were killed, 2,219 injured, 75,000 left homeless. Next day Governor Beverley flew over the devastated areas, reported that the entire banana crop was destroyed, that coffee and tobacco had suffered a 50% loss, citrus fruits nearly...
...immodest after all. It includes one "probably" and one "perhaps," and says nothing at all about the Bussey Institute, the graduate school of arts and sciences, the glass flowers, the recent gratifying football experience with Yale, and the permanent rustication of a young man who wafted a specimen of citrus fruit at Rudy. If this appeal does not make graduates loosen up, they have no sense of relative values and no dollars for absolute worth. Boston Herald...
...hawking Rio Grande valley land through the Wisconsin back country. The Wisconsin Board claimed that the Texas land was no good, that it had been misrepresented by its boosters. When the Board found that its own secretary, John L. Newman, had defied its edict by purchasing a ten-acre citrus farm in the forbidden valley, it promptly discharged...
...property had been destroyed in the campaign, much of it needlessly; 2) $6,000,000 had been spent on eradication which, if done efficiently, should not have cost more than $1,500,000; 3) "bugologists,'' by their loose talk, "have done more damage to the Florida citrus industry than the bugs...