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...march, one vineyard spokesman warned that "the church leaders had better start looking for other financial means to carry out their radical theories." But now that Schenley has agreed to accept the union, most of the vineyards are expected to follow suit. Delano's largest grower, Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., has already agreed to let its workers vote on whether they wanted a union or not. (Two other unions besides Chávez's Farm Workers Association are trying to organize the vineyards...
...acting motherly. The moral: "What there is shall go to those who are good for it." This could prove that millionaires are best qualified to have money, but Brecht uses it to justify a decision by Soviet collective farmers some years back that old grazing land should go to fruit growers...
...virtue of its 1955 FPC permit to investigate the possibilities of two smaller dams near by. Held the court: it "would be manifestly unfair" to a private company that "has expended large sums over a long period, if a state or municipality could step in and reap the fruit of its labors by obtaining a license merely because of the [Power Act] preference...
...sentence: "Time flies like an arrow." Instead of having the machine say, "time: subject, verb, adjective," and having the observer choose "subject" for this particular context, why can't the machine be instructed to "figure it out?" "Time flies like an arrow" is not really very different from "Fruit flies like a banana," but their diagrams are at opposite poles. In the latter, "fruit flies" are a species of fly and "like" is a verb. Why shouldn't the machine say that "time flies" are another (admittedly rarer) species...
Those who cut their roots in Europe, and those in America who pulled up stakes to push West, were not merely restless and dissatisfied. In a new kind of environment, for which nothing had prepared them, they staked their lives on a future that might bear fruit only for their children. The chronicles tell of countless men and women who were far from impetuous and headlong, farther still from resigned, as they pushed their creaking wagon trains over mountains and across blazing deserts-forced back by Indians, or sickness, or starvation, but gathering strength again to return and press...