Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bird Dogs. Florida's agriculture has kept pace with its industry. In the center of the state, citrus groves were heavy last week with the biggest crop in history (an estimated 130 million boxes). The "bird dogs," i.e., the middlemen in the industry, sent radio-directed trucks speeding from grove to grove, lining up likely buys. Not long ago, such a huge crop would have meant vast surpluses, and the dumping of millions of bushels of fruit into Florida's lakes and rivers. But "this year, almost every orange and grapefruit will be sold at good prices...
...enormous growth of Florida's citrus industry has been paralleled by big gains in the relatively new pursuit (for Florida) of raising cattle. Until a few years ago, gunfights crackled over the Florida countryside in the best tradition of the West. But now 1,500,000 acres of good cattle land and 1,386.000 head of beef cattle are fenced in under the watchful eyes of Seminole Indian cowhands, and order reigns. Said 77-year-old Agriculture Commissioner Nathan Mayo: "We used to have nothing but scrawny herds of 4-H cattle−hide, hair, hoof and horns...
...them, life in frontierlike Israel had proved too hard. Most were middle-aged and middle class. Their uncalloused hands were unsuited for the road building, foresting and citrus picking that growing Israel demanded of its immigrants. Wrote one unhappy Rumanian to the Jerusalem Post: "Former industrialists, merchants and intellectuals think themselves lucky now if they can get jobs as night watchmen." They longed for their children, but these the Reds had kept behind in Rumania. They hoped for comfort in the promised land, but found their spirits broken in lonely months in one-roomed tin huts and canvas shacks...
Some good news for growers of citrus fruit, cotton and potatoes came from Dr. Robert Metcalf. a co-worker of March's at California's Riverside Experimental Station. He and fellow workers have developed two new double-barreled insecticides that attack pests from inside plants. Called Systox and OMPA, they are a by-product of German wartime efforts to produce a nerve gas. If sprayed only on a tree trunk, Systox and OMPA work their way inside so neatly that they protect leaves that grow after the spraying is done. They seem to leave little harmful residue...
...Search for an Ear. Now Nashville burned to know what he had done with his life. Only a shred of information leaked out from the insurance company: Buntin was living in Texas, probably in a citrus-growing area, under an assumed name. The Nashville Tennessean forthwith started one of the oddest chases of all time: it sent a young reporter named John Seigenthaler to the biggest state in the union to look for a thin man with a protruding left...