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...three boys--Frank Cresta, his brother Vincent, and Michael Alexandra--will present their grievances before the State Labor Mediation Board this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errand Boys Charge Grocer Cheated Them | 2/12/1969 | See Source »

...Frank Cresta, 15, said yesterday that Jack Savenor, the manager of the store, told them he was playing them the minimum wage of $1.60 an hour, when he was actually paying them only $1.30 an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errand Boys Charge Grocer Cheated Them | 2/12/1969 | See Source »

...charges. "We run a $2 million business," Savenor said yesterday. "I couldn't risk that to gyp some kids out of a few cents," he added. Savenor accused the boys of carrying anti-Semitic slogans on their picket signs and shouting at him, "Hitler should have gotten you, too." Cresta said this was not true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errand Boys Charge Grocer Cheated Them | 2/12/1969 | See Source »

White, Semillon variety: Cresta Blanca (Premier), nonvintage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wine: California Crus | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Screw Caps. The vineyards of the premium producers-Almaden, Beaulieu, Beringer, Cresta Blanca. Inglenook, Korbel, Krug, Louis Martini, Masson, Wente, et al.-are concentrated chiefly in the Napa Valley and coastal areas near San Francisco. Most own their own vineyards, bottle their table wine in the old traditional style of the good French winemakers, studiously disdaining such modern advances as concrete fermentation vats and screw-cap bottle tops. Their wine is labeled with the name of the grape from which it is made, so that buyers can approximate the European equivalent in a California product. In white wines, Pinot Chardonnay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food & Drink: A Watch on the Wine | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

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