Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prices while competition cut profit margins. Minute Maid ran into further trouble in its own orange processing, where costs increased while retail prices slid. Though 1957 sales were $103 million, the company reported a pre-tax loss of $5,000,000. When a December freeze hit Florida's citrus crop, Wall Street assumed the worst, sold Minute Maid down to a nine-year...
Riverside. A small (843 students) liberal arts college started in the desert six years ago at the site of the university's citrus experimental station 75 miles east of Los Angeles, Riverside this year sent an impressive 50% of its seniors on to graduate schools...
...voters the economic picture is far from dismal. Said House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas: "The recession hasn't hit this part of the country yet." Reported Indiana Republican William G. Bray: "Recession talk is not as prevalent as I thought." Even in Florida, hard hit by a citrus freeze and a bad tourist season, Democratic Senator George Smathers was "most surprised" at the lack of interest in the recession. California's Republican Congressman Craig Hosmer said: "The people in my district [Long Beach] are mostly afraid of Congress. They think Congress is acting hysterical...
...noted at the Dodgers' camp at Vero Beach. Fla., was "the impounding" by club officials of Manhattan newspapers that carried stories critical of the Dodgers, "lest the Los Angeles contingent be contaminated." Other "small reprisals": the Dodgers' announcement that their plane would take only California sportswriters to citrus-circuit exhibition games; the "eviction" of New York newsmen from sleeping quarters at Dodgertown; timing of press releases, which in the case of a spring-training automobile accident involving Duke Snider and two teammates were held up to favor Western dailies' later deadlines. The Associated Press was so miffed...
...CITRUS PRICES, a big factor in January's .7% jump in living costs, will stay high because growers will need at least two years to make up for weather-ruined crop. Frozen juice prices will rise 15% to 20% in next two months; orange prices will remain about 25% above 1957 level...