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Your article "California's Rotting Shame" reminds me of the Depression days, when the Fruit Growers Association was dumping oranges into San Pedro Bay to keep up the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1981 | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

Rotting oranges in California [April 6] represent a criminal nutritional waste. In addition, unimaginative profiteers overlook the potential of ethanol from the fruit for vehicle and home-heating fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1981 | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...were unemployed and hungry dived into the waters to retrieve the fruit. Growers got wind of what was going on; they soaked the oranges with kerosene so that we could not eat them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1981 | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...unlikely that the charges that District 65 will file tomorrow with the NLRB will bear fruit. Harvard usually manages to stick within the guidelines of convoluted NLRB statutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med Workers Reject Union; District 65 to File Complaint | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

...protection law and pistol-packing lawmen to back it up, cactus rustlers make away with an estimated $500,000 to $1 million worth of plants each year. Among them: the giant saguaro (pronounced sah-vrar-o), Arizona's state flower, which grows to 50 ft. or more. The fruit of the saguaro is an important food source for practically all desert birds and is used as well by humans to make preserves and, yes, cactus wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Prickly but Imperiled Species | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

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