Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anthony Nixon, was an Ohio Methodist with only six years of formal education who left his job as a trolley-car operator in Columbus and drifted to Southern California in search of warmer weather. After Frank married Hannah in 1908, he was barely able to scrape by as a citrus-fruit farmer, grocer and gas-station owner. A neighbor described Frank Nixon as "brusque, loud, dogmatic...
...addition to food, independents haul much of the nation's steel and other raw materials, and the impact of the strike is already being felt. Major citrus and produce growers are unable to ship their crops North. As a result, the price of oranges, strawberries and other perishables will rise. Because of material shortages, Armco Steel Corp. closed its Columbus plant indefinitely, throwing 565 people out of work. Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and U.S. Steel may close their plants in Youngstown. Strike leaders predict that unless the Government offers them a more satisfactory deal, food shortages will begin...
...crop of up to 300 million bushels more than last year. There is a good chance that wheat prices will dip this year-unless the Russians come into the market again and bid prices up. Other produce, including tomatoes, sweet corn and green beans, should also be good, and citrus fruits are abundant...
...thousand men assemble near the marketplace and pile on to scores of buses and trucks that take them to work in Israel. There they earn up to $17 a day in construction work and other manual-labor jobs-four or five times what they used to make in the citrus groves. So prized are the skilled Arab hands that some Jewish foremen in the nearby Israeli town of Kfar Saba pick them up in taxis to take them to work...
...Israel's electricity grid last year after Kalkilya's old generators broke down and there was no way to get new ones from Jordan. And laborers can now afford such luxuries as television sets and gas stoves. About the only ones who have not profited are the citrus growers, who complain that they are unable to compete with Israeli industries in the high wage market. "If we speak sharply to the workers," complains Mustafa Hussein Nazzal, Kalkilya's Arab mayor and a prominent orchard owner, "they quit and find jobs in Israel...