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Double or Nothing. The other half of Army's high explosive charge is deer-footed Junior Davis, also 20 (he looks younger) and also a second-year Cadet. He was just about the best schoolboy athlete ever grown in Southern California. At Claremont, a citrus-belt town of well-manicured lawns and ivy-covered homes, his high-school sports were football, baseball, basketball and track. He won the Knute Rockne Trophy for being Southern California's outstanding schoolboy track star...
...Colorado's water, but California farmers feared increased competition from Texas and Mexico. Much Mexican land on the lower Colorado was as productive (if irrigated) as California's famed Imperial Valley. It might compete with California's cotton and vegetable crop. South Texas raises high-grade citrus fruit and is closer than California to Eastern U.S. markets. California would like to stop that irrigation leak...
...plant, a box factory and the railroads-including locomotives and a 20-mile stretch of electrified line. But the Supply Co.'s most important reason for buying the town from the Red River Lumber Co. was to get 100,000 acres of timber for packing cases for their citrus fruits. It was one of the biggest lumber deals in U.S. history...
...same hurricane leveled many a Florida citrus grove. Shipments of Florida oranges will be cut 20%, grapefruit, 43%. There were few lemons in the Eastern U.S. food markets...
...Production of early potatoes is up a whacking 22%, promising at least a temporary end to the pinch. Likewise up is production of citrus fruits...