Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...springtime the buds of the fruit trees swell and swell. Finally there comes a point where they cannot swell longer, and they burst- the peach tree into warm pink bloom, the apple modestly, into flushed white flower. So is it with Hiram W. Johnson and with William G. McAdoo...
...treatment was devised, dubbed the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act. Still the geese fail to produce their golden fruit. There is a chorus of new proposals. Senator Cummins of Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, and others of his group favor consolidation. They say in effect: " Let us put all the geese into half a dozen large goosepens. Then those less inclined to lay will emulate those more inclined to lay, and we shall have eggs." Radicals, such as Senator La Follette, favor drastic cuts in freight rates, saying: " The geese are suffering from a plethora. A little dieting...
...Conference also agreed to a preferential tariff for British goods on the following articles: canned salmon, apples, dried fruits, honey, fruit juices, preserved fruits, and possibly on sugar and tobacco. In addition to this agreement was understood to have been made on "manufactured goods," but this enigmatical phrase of Premier Baldwin was not elucidated...
Stokes fighting with back to wall . . . prepared like Samson, to bring down the very temple of his own home, if beneath the ruins, he can crush the woman who bore him two children and was then tossed away like worm-eaten fruit...
...Waterman, American experts in charge of archeological work for the Guatemalan Government. On some of the monuments the figures are all male; on others, all female. There is an entire absence of representation of weapons of war, indicating the advanced and peaceful state of culture. The United Fruit Company, which has big plantations throughout the region, is helping to protect the Guatemala ruins...