Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation was most acute in the Pacific. Bases on former Jap-mandated islands, in the Philippines, Ryukyus and Aleutians, were the fruit of great and costly amphibious campaigns. The danger was that this fruit would be rotten before it was ripe...
...Petropolis the fabulous, $13,000,000 Quitandinha ("little fruit stand"), most advertised spa and hotel in South America, faced failure. Suave Joaquim Rolla, Brazil's gambling king and owner of the place, walked in on Treasury Minister Carlos Luz and announced: "Well, I am giving you Quitandinha...
Died. Curtice N. Hitchcock, 54, president and co-founder of Reynal & Hitchcock, Manhattan publishers of best-seller Strange Fruit and Pulitzer-Prize winning V-Letter and Other Poems; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...
...President Jackson, Tennessee-born, grew up in Florida, studied law in Virginia, spent most of his early business days in the tropics. There he collected rare orchid plants, also found a wife (the sister of famed airman "Billy" Mitchell) and a job as an attorney for United Fruit. Now he is United Fruit's vice president and general counsel as well as president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. A lifelong Democrat, Jackson classified himself as a "social-minded conservative." He promised to wage a vigorous campaign to revise the Wagner Act, to outlaw "unfair practices" by labor such...
...Edgar Guest, turns out 50 homey verses a month for newspapers and radio. He wrote Song of the Apple before breakfast one morning in bed, after deciding that most Japanese were thinking about food these days. He rejected rice as unromantic, chose the apple because it is his favorite fruit...