Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is plenty of evidence that research can solve many farm-surplus problems. Powdered eggs have been so improved that they have hatched a new line of cake and cookie mixes. Only a few years ago surplus-ridden citrus growers in Florida were destroy ing tons of oranges in an effort to bolster prices; now about 50% of their crop is being turned into frozen orange juice and many growers are expanding. A new process, developed by the Agriculture Department, to dehydrate cooked potatoes has proved so successful that several manufacturers have put the product on the market. Predicts...
...their first municipal water, electricity and drainage systems. Trains are hauling in supplies from Tel Aviv 40 miles away; mail is arriving marked "Gaza via Israel." Work is expected to start soon on bringing water from the Yarkon-Negev pipeline to irrigate the first 2,500 acres of citrus-growing land in the Deir el Balah sector. In nearly every village, Israeli experts are handing out new strains of grain, instructing farmers in how to fertilize their soil and improve their scrawny breed of cattle...
Actually, life in Franco's Spain is getting tougher and tougher. Heavy frosts last February destroyed nearly half the nation's citrus crop, at an estimated loss of at least $80 million in foreign exchange. Early last spring, the discontent of Spanish workers, many of whom take two jobs and work 14 hours a day to eke out a living, exploded in a series of illegal strikes. Reluctantly, Franco granted wage raises that averaged about 40%, and paid for them by the dangerous expedient of printing extra paper money...
...Druggists were bombarded with a publicity barrage based on a report in Industrial Medicine & Surgery that remedies containing bioflavonoids, e.g., vitamin-like citrus extracts, were 74% effective against common colds among McDonnell Aircraft Corp. employees. But simultaneously came two reports in the A.M.A. Journal showing bioflavonoids useless against colds in Dartmouth College students and Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. workers. Warned the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Dr. Albert H. Holland Jr.: "A cold is still a cold, and facts are facts...
...G.O.P. Congressman John Phillips until he announced his retirement last November, spreads across 11,000 violently contrasting square miles. It includes the lush irrigated ranches (cotton, fancy vegetables, dates) of the Imperial, Coachella and Palo Verde valleys and Marslike desert mountains and flats. It in cludes the onetime citrus wonderland of Riverside County, now being turned into a thriving business area by the overflow of Los Angeles-bound migrants...