Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warren administration put through the "taste test" citrus program which insured the vitamin-hungry citizens of America oranges and grapefruit ripe and redolent with succulent, salubrious, satisfying juice. Governor McCarty continued this program. The Warren administration sponsored legislation outlawing highway cows and hogs [and] slightly reduced the cruel carnage of colliding cars . . . Illegal gambling had been openly operated in Florida for more than 50 years before 1949. The Warren administration suppressed all open, illegal gambling . . . and markedly reduced sneak gambling . . . TIME turned back to the Ananias tradition by alleging that Florida had a "Fuller Warren type of government-by-lobby...
...prayer. The triangle, Wright believes, is "the symbol of aspiration." ¶Pictures of a house Wright built in Phoenix last year for one of his sons. Made of concrete blocks, it looks like a snail shell somewhat flattened and supported on stilts. Says Wright: "It is in a citrus-orchard district and the orange trees make the lawn for the house. The slowly rising ramp reveals the surrounding mountains and gives security to the occupants...
Died. Dan McCarty, 41, Democratic governor of Florida since January, wealthy Ft. Pierce cattleman and citrus grower; following an attack of pneumonia; in Tallahassee, Fla. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...type of government-by-lobby. State law will not permit Johns to run for governor next year, and McCarty's followers are determined to find a candidate who will carry out their reform program. Among those prominently mentioned: retired General James A. Van Fleet, a Florida resident and citrus grower...
...thousand miles south of Nairobi, the fear of spreading Mau Mauism haunts the fertile British Protectorate of Nyasaland. The colony's 4,400 Britons raise bumper crops of tea, tobacco and citrus fruits along the Shire River valley, which drains the 360-mile-long Lake Nyasa (see map). They are outnumbered more than 500-to-one by 2,500,000 Africans, whom they call "niggers" and "coons." Last week...