Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though this were not bad enough. Spain, by being left outside Europe's prosperous new Common Market, was in danger of losing its markets for wine and citrus fruits...
...Citrus Heights, Calif...
...extra race a day and five additional racing days a season. Texas, its oil producers already hilt-taxed, may tax natural-gas transmission companies as well. New Mexico may triple its severance tax on uranium; Nevada will collect one-fourth the state budget from legalized gambling; Florida taxes citrus growers and Maine its timber...
DROPPING FARM PRICES will put parity below 80% for first time in 19 years. Lower prices are coming for cotton, grain, citrus, eggs, milk...
...could not operate without external balances, and even some government agencies had undeclared accounts of their own. But Spain's sick economy has been going from bad to worse. In the first nine months of 1958 the country suffered a trade deficit of $263 million. Its exports of citrus fruits are down more than 60%. It has so little left in gold reserves ($57 million) that it cannot even scrape up enough money to pay for the crude petroleum it needs each year. Desperate for hard currency, and shocked by the size of the sums involved, Franco decided...