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...Corona del Mar, Calif...
Under a bright California sky last week, some 500 fruit growers, packers and distributors gathered in the small town of Corona near Los Angeles to have lunch, dedicate a new building, and listen to some statistics. The building was an $800,000 freezing plant and warehouse built to store more than 1,250,000 cases of Sunkist Growers, Inc.'s newest product: Sunkist frozen lemonade concentrate. The statistics were even more impressive: since introducing its frozen lemonade concentrate in 1950, Sunkist has boosted sales 5,000% : 7.000,000 cases in fiscal 1953 and 10 million expected...
...growers at Corona, the success of Sunkist's new lemonade concentrate meant more vitamins for the growth of the world's largest food cooperative. Since 1893, when a few growers took the name "Southern California Fruit Exchange" and joined forces to market their crop, the co-op has blossomed into a huge pyramid with a base of 14,000 growers and an apex of hired managers who run the business. Not many of Sunkist's growers own more than 15 acres apiece. But together they market about 75% of all the citrus fruit in California and Arizona...
...simple cartoonlike models, such as trains reminiscent of Cartoonist Rowland Emett's famed rickety railways in Punch; and "Sky," in which a pair of crescent moons dance around a corona-circled sun and lesser heavenly bodies ($3.95 each, produced by Pace Design Studios, Chicago). ¶Seasonal groups, such as "Santa," featuring a robust St. Nick, a reindeer and a star-carrying angel, all suspended from a crescent moon; and "Spring," a versatile, pastel menage of rabbits, flowers, birds and butterflies ($1 and $1.95, Scamanda Mobiles, Manhattan). ¶Decorative abstractions, such as Sculptor Marechal Brown's "Tapered Quills," looking...
...encyclical letter titled Fulgens Corona (The Radiant Crown), Pope Pius XII proclaimed the year 1954 (from December 1953 to December 1954) a Marian Year, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The Marian Year will be marked by special ceremonies, and Roman Catholics everywhere were urged to concentrate their prayers on three main subjects: world peace, church unity, and "the church of silence"-Catholics who live behind the Iron Curtain under fear and persecution for their faith...