Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California for his health after diving into an ice-covered vat near Dartmouth on a dare. In Los Angeles, Chandler's racking cough so annoyed his landlady that she asked him to move. He wandered into the hills, got a job with a squatter breaking colts and picking fruit. As part payment he got permission to sell some of the fruit to nearby Mexican laborers. In a year he had saved $3,000. He went to work for fiery, union-hating General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the four-page Times, as a circulation rustler...
Chungking observers speculated: the mission was a fruit of Vice President Henry Wallace's visit last May. Within a measurable period of time, U.S. supplies-via either the Burma Road or the Pacific -will be flowing into China. Basic principles, commitments of one Government to the other, must be worked out now to avoid possible future misunderstandings...
Tsitsin, a small, black-mustached scientist, showered with all manner of Soviet awards, gets $15,000,000 a year from the Government for large-scale studies in "grain economics for non-fertile soil." He has grown fruit on vegetable vines, vegetables on trees (e.g., beans grafted on willows, tomatoes on a South American fruit tree called "tsfamalda"). For 15 years he has worked toward a perfect wheat: one which would come up year after year without seeding, resist drought and disease, survive killing winters, wind and rain, yield at least 25 bushels an acre...
Richard Whitney, ex-New York Stock Exchange president, now an industrial sales broker in Boston, on parole from Sing Sing, asked permission of the Massachusetts parole board to set up a frozen-fruit business in Florida...
...pair of shoes out of the hide of a deer he killed. He sickened once after a meal of wild fruit. But he fared pretty well most of the time. " I guess the mountain air agreed with me," said Tweed...