Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with this competition, the U.S. lines, principally Grace,* United Fruit and Lykes, cried for help. They got it from the shipping section of the U.S. State Department; the Embassy in Bogotá was told to point out that Colombia was violating the 1846 treaty of commerce, friendship and navigation. Colombians knew the answer to that one: in the same treaty, the U.S. guaranteed Colombian rights over Panama. The U.S., Colombia claims, violated the treaty when Theodore Roosevelt, as he boasted, "took Panama...
...Last year Grace carried half of Colombia's coffee exports, 5,340,310 bags; United Fruit, 711,813 bags; West Coast Lines, 333,986 bags...
There are already many mutations stored away in the human species. They were caused by natural agents, such as cosmic rays striking through the sex organs. But man-made agents can cause mutations faster. Last year, Professor Muller won a Nobel prize for proving that X rays beamed through fruit flies can breed a crop of monstrosities (TIME, Nov.11...
...Fruit-fly generations are short: even recessive mutations show up fairly quickly. Human mutations may not do their work for thousands of years. But, says Dr. Muller, "finally they must cause the dying out of one of the descendent individuals that carries the harmful mutation, either through his direct death ... or through his failing to reproduce-in either case his 'genetic death...
Like a nocturnal creature suddenly caught in the sun, Deferrari recoiled from the wave of questions that followed. When someone asked him what he ate, he replied with octogenarian bluntness: "I ask my bowels. If they need food that will go right through me, I eat fruit. If I'm feeling good, I cook myself a steak...