Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died in Committee. In Inverness, Fla., the Citrus County Chronicle carried a notice: "An announcement by J. Wallace Cooper: I said I would be a candidate for council. My wife said I wouldn't be. So ends my thoughts on seeking a place on the city council...
Much of the $10 million the U.S. citrus industry spends annually on pest control goes toward fighting the Helix aspersa, a common orchard variety of snail. The Helix feeds indiscriminately on leaves, twigs and fruit. Up to now, the industry has relied on expensive chemical dusts and sprays; unfortunately, they must be applied almost constantly and they are only moderately effective. Last week Curtis P. Clausen of the University of California's Department of Biological Control announced plans to fight the Helix with one of its own kind: the Gonaxis kibweziensis, commonly known as the cannibal snail...
Natural Balance. Similarly, the Helix snail, presumably imported from Europe, did not become a hazard to citrus groves until it reached California. In effect, what the biologists hope to do is restore a natural balance, which was upset when the Helix left home...
...notch, so U.S. businessmen were no longer content with existing facilities. In their steady drive to produce more, they laid out $28 billion for new plants and equipment in 1955, 5% more than 1954. California's economy grew with gold-rush speed. In the San Fernando Valley a citrus farmer was tempted to take $3,500 an acre from a housing developer for his 40 acres, but an expert advised him to wait. A few weeks later, the farmer was back with a mile-wide grin. Said he: "I just wanted you to know that I've sold...
...income and, in turn, attract more industry to diversify and stabilize employment. For example, in Los Angeles County, 1,576 highly diversified plants (total investment: $500 million) have opened their doors since 1945. As a result, Los Angeles has easily been able to weather such economic setbacks as the citrus slump and the sharp postwar cutbacks in the aircraft industry. In ten years, the Cleveland area has brought in more than 200,000 new jobs and $2.8 billion in new and expanded plants, almost entirely as a result of hard-hitting promotion by customer-hungry Cleveland Electric Illuminating...