Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wealthy California citrus grower and real estate man, Pitzer graduated with top honors from CalTech, did important war work whose nature is still a secret, and became an instructor in chemistry at the University of California when only 23. As head of AEC research, the bright geometry student will have to solve problems that no teacher has ever figured...
...University of California (eight campuses, 10,000 acres, more than 43,000 students) is convinced that it isn't big enough. Last week, the Board of Regents announced that it would build a new $6,000,000 liberal arts college on one of its smaller campuses-the Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside (900 acres), where now only a handful of graduate students in citriculture take up all the space. The new college will accommodate over 1,000 students. That, said the regents, was just the first step in taking care of the state's growing college population-which...
...butcher . . . You are in a rut and won't try anything new so we are getting out of the habit of suggesting things. We sure are tired of hearing you complain about tough meats ... If you take the toughest piece of meat and rub it well with any citrus fruit, leave it in the refrigerator overnight, then slow-cook it, you will be delighted with its tenderness and flavor...
California citrus growers were plagued by an opposite turn of nature. The Wall Street Journal reported that for the fourth successive year, Valencia oranges had mysteriously grown smaller. It took an average of 277 of them to fill a crate this year, as compared with 276 in 1947, 264 in 1946, 254 in 1945, 220 before that. The University of California's citrus experiment station admitted that it had no clues. One desperate expert talked darkly of "the effects of sunspots...
...southern counties. Sir John Anderson, until recently chairman of the Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy, warned the House of Commons to plan now for civilian defense in an atomic war. Shop counters were piled high with oranges and lemons (the British had foresightedly cleared the bulk of the Palestine citrus crops before beginning troop withdrawals). Fruits and vegetables were arriving from South Africa. But the average Briton was still plagued with shortages. He was limited to a shillingsworth of meat (tuppence of it in corned beef), and fats and soap were hard to find. The current music-hall...