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...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...
Some of Armstrong's ideas have borne golden fruit. Sunkist was the first to can or bottle any kind of citrus product (orange juice) in 1933, and was the first to go into volume production for the retail market two years later. Today, Sunkist's processing business nets more than $36 million a year from juices and frozen concentrates. Even the waste is used to make such citrus byproducts as citrus pectins, citric acid and lemon oils. Florida grows more oranges, but California and Arizona have the lemon business practically to themselves. Sunkist grows 82% of the nation...
Suburbs & Smog. Nevertheless, the co-op has its troubles. Steadily growing industrial suburbs have cut some 30,000 acres off the California citrus growers' orchards since World War II, and California's oranges have been getting smaller over the past few years. Sunkist's researchers are at work on the orange mystery, trying to discover if it is the smog, the lack of rain, or some unnamed malady that stunts the oranges. But Sunkist's 14,000 fruit growers are sure that Armstrong and his researchers will lick these problems, as they have others...