Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the dinner (including Manitoba buffalo steak, supreme of prairie chicken, rõti, Okanagan fruit compote, Inglenook-Traminer white wine), Mike Pearson toasted the President of the U.S.; Actor George Murphy responded with a toast to the King. Shortly after midnight, everyone went home...
Probably very few Canadians would now be interested. They had been lured by some very lush prizes: a $15,000 ranch or fruit farm "in sunny British Columbia"; a 1946 Lincoln Zephyr; an all-expense trip to Europe or $1,000 in cash; a $12,000 house; $500 Persian lamb coats; refrigerators, washing machines and scads of smaller consolation prizes. Among the most successful bingo operators in Ontario was the Lions Club of Ottawa, which has drawn as many as 8,000 participants to its monthly game in the barnlike Auditorium...
When California fruit & vegetable farmers decided to try shipping by air to the East Coast, they needed a man who understood both marketing and aviation. They got such a man in 42-year-old Ralph Myers, produce farmer and private flyer of Salinas, Calif., who delights in flamboyant frontier clothes and his nickname "Cocky...
Last week, after an eight-month test (30 planeloads), Cocky Myers reported back to the United Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Association what he had found...
Died. Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, 79, shy, Nobel Prizewinning (1933) geneticist whose studies of the quick-breeding fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) culminated in an epochal hypothesis: the existence of genes - submicroscopic determinants of heredity; in Pasadena...