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...area orange groves worth $10,000 an acre as housing sites, growers sold off 100,000 acres, then moved north to the San Joaquin Valley or east to Arizona and are planting 125,000 acres more. Florida's citrus growers, who have been moving southward to escape the frost, have drained thousands of acres once suited only for cattle raising. The result, according to Miami Banker Ellis Clark: "The expansion was getting out of hand. In sheer volume alone, the crop was taxing our ability to move...
Except for a handful of growers who were wiped out when the frost killed off millions of young trees, the citrus industry still has a ripe future-and will probably continue to expand. Citrus trees begin to yield profitably after five years and bear fruit almost indefinitely, though taxmen write them off in 40 years. The hazards, beyond an occasional frost or round of tree diseases, are small. And the profit, with any kind of effort, is a juicy...
...understand God: this was his preoccupation. In "A Frost Lay White on California," he writes...
Miss Sexton, a member of the Radcliffe Institute, has contributed to The New Yorker, Harper's, Accent, Hudson Review, and Partisan Review and has published two volumes of her verse, To Bedlam and Part Way Bask and All My Pretty Ones. In 1959 she held the Robert Frost Fellowship at the Broad Loaf Writers' Conference...
...treatment of prisoners was just short of murder. Outside on the windy steppes the average winter temperature was 17° below. Inside the barracks, the ceilings were always coated with frost. Every day the prisoners were sent out to do senseless, back-breaking labor. Meals were always the same watery gruel with chunks of rotten fish (Shukhov was jeered because he refused to eat fish eyes when they were floating free in the soup). The guards made the prisoners undress outside to be frisked, beat them with birch clubs, threw any who talked back into a barely heated "cell," where...