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...industry's biggest growth came from the sensational success of frozen orange juice, which also bailed out many a floundering Florida citrus grower. Four years ago, Florida had such a glut of oranges that prices tumbled to as little as 65? a box. In 1949-50, as frozen-food packers put up 21 million gallons of concentrated orange juice, the demand for oranges outran supply and prices rose...
...squeezed himself a bigger glass than husky, 37-year-old John Irving Moone, president of Manhattan's Snow Crop Marketers, Inc. Last week Moone, who claims first place among U.S. orange concentrate producers, squeezed harder. For about $1,000,000, he bought 1,100 acres of Sarasota citrus groves, to boost Snow Crop's total Florida groves to about 17,000 acres. From its own groves and from purchases from independent Towers this year, Snow Crop will can almost 10 million gallons of fresh orange concentrate, putting it ahead of Bing Crosby's Minute Maid (TIME...
Hitting the Road. As he rolled through the Central Florida citrus belt last week, Congressman Smathers was doing everything possible to label Pepper a proCommunist, an apologist for Joe Stalin and a backer of that Yankee monstrosity, the FEPC. He ominously quoted Lenin as saying that the "best way to communize any country is to socialize its medical profession," and then implied that Pepper was a Leninist for supporting the Administration's national health-insurance bill. Smathers' supporters carried dislike of their opponent to the dining table, where the gag was to say "Please pass the black salt...
...last week telephone lines crashed down, water pipes burst, roads were blocked by snow. For nearly two days, Jerusalem was cut off from the rest of the country. Buildings, including a stove factory in Jerusalem, collapsed under the heavy load of snow on the roofs. Israel's entire citrus fruit crop (the country's No. 1 export), the tomato crop and half of the estimated banana crop were destroyed...
...year-old Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde (The Return from Abroad) a U.S. performance-but made no great impression with it. In fact, after three years of applauding the Lemonaders' fine selection of strange fruit, most listeners found Die Heimkehr (now titled The Stranger) a sorry piece of citrus indeed...