Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their favorites is: "What is wrong with the Christian church today?" Put to 100 clergymen and laymen (mostly Protestant) throughout the U.S., this high-explosive question blew several Protestant tops. The current issue of Georgia's semiannual South Today, edited by Paula Snelling and Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith, tried to piece churchmen's scattered replies (they were speaking as individuals) into a bill of particulars against the churches. Samples...
...some, it might have seemed that there was little tangible evidence that he had ever been at St. Luke's at all. There was nothing much to prove it: just a new gymnasium and a handful of fruit trees he himself had planted (last year's crop: two apples, twelve cherries). But St. Luke's parishioners, if no one else, knew what Father Schlueter had done: that he had lived among them as a simple...
...California entomologists have found that in too heavy or improperly timed doses DDT may be harmful to plants (especially tomatoes), animals and people (if they eat heavily sprayed fruit or vegetables). But they have also learned that with care most of DDT's dangers can be avoided: e.g., bees, which are vulnerable to DDT, can be protected against poisoning by spraying fruit trees before they blossom...
...first of the peace conferences of World War II bore fruit last week. President Roosevelt at last asked Congress to approve U.S. membership in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, an international planning body projected at Hot Springs...
...Chemical garden which raises pre-dehydrated fruit, vegetables and fish in sufficient quantities to feed the whole neighborhood...