Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strange Fruit. In Lindsborg, Kansas, Anna Dahlsten's "geranium" plant bore two whopping tomatoes...
...cold California fog hung over San Joaquin Valley. Inside Beardsley's dance hall, near Bakersfield, the air was steaming with the exertions of 1,358 oil workers and farmers as they jived, jumped, or just jogged to the music. The men were mostly tieless; the fruit-cannery girls they danced with were mostly in sweaters and slacks. On the platform, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys tapped their pointed, hand-stitched boots, and plunked and blew their way through Take Me Back to Tulsa. On benches lining the walls, babies in blankets slept through...
...science of genetics is out of date and had better be revised or abandoned. Geneticists, fussing around for the last century with colored sweet peas and subnormal fruit flies, are out of touch with the real world...
...goods, taught them to trade among themselves. In shop windows along Havana's Calle San Rafael appeared Mexican silver, Argentine pocketbooks, Chilean wines. Today, Argentina's chief supplier is no longer Britain but Brazil. Three Chilean companies now export more bananas from Ecuador to Chile than United Fruit ships...
Lady Astor, 66, walked down a tiny fruit steamer's gangplank into a stage-idol's welcome in Manhattan, gave swarming reporters and cameramen a performance to remember. Wrapped in mink and hung with diamond-&-sapphire earrings, she got For She's a Jolly Good Fellow from the ship's crewmen, cried back happily, "What more could a girl ask?" and faced the press. "I'm an extinct volcano," said she, but soon became active...