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World War II brought peace to Palestine. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem quit having Jews mobbed at the Wailing Wall. Arab and Jewish youths joined the British Near Eastern Army. Jews entered Arab districts without risk of being blown to pieces, and vice versa. Jewish and Arab citrus fruit growers talked of forming cooperatives and Arabs in Jerusalem went to Jewish nightclubs. Problems like further Jewish immigration and smaller Arab land ownership were put by for the duration...
Seen from the air, this go-square mi. patch looks like one sprawling bailiwick, set in the flat expanses of citrus groves, bean and pepper and tomato fields that extend southward to the swampy Everglades. Actually it is divided into three parts. There are 1) the residential suburbs: Hialeah, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, South Miami (where many a homeowner last week had moved into his garage-apartment, rented his house for the winter season); 2) the city of Miami, lovely in segments but raw-ugly in sum, with its own tolerant government and its flamboyant, perennial "reform" Mayor...
Texas. In Houston the plumbers' union (A. F. of L.) won much-needed public good will when it agreed to drop overtime, work straight hours repairing plumbing. The Rio Grande Valley was hard hit: half the citrus crop near Brownsville was still on the trees, and Brownsville, at 29°, was colder than Nome, Alaska at 33°; 75% of the tomato crop was believed killed; beets and cabbages in the coastal bend near Corpus Christi were damaged. Estimated value of endangered fruit...
...Angeles: Shippers hoped that their Chamber of Commerce would take over U. S. coastwise vessels to forestall a tie-up of cotton, citrus fruits, petroleum, exports...
...dollar which she spent for orange stamps, she also got 50? in blue stamps. These were premiums, given to her by the U. S. Government. They also could be "spent" at any grocery, but only for farm produce officially listed as surplus: butter, eggs, flour, cornmeal, prunes, dried beans, citrus fruits. Grocers who took Miss McFiggins' stamps, or wholesalers who accepted them as payment from retailers, can cash them for ordinary money at any bank, for they are drafts on the U. S. Treasury...