Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover signed bills to: Appropriate $340,815.08 for the expenses of the special session of Congress; make available $4,250,000 to combat fruit flies in Florida...
...American Expeditionary Force in France in 1918-1919, his long conflict with the opium traffic, his enthusiastic interest in international affairs, which made the students feel in him a man who had had a share in the great life of the world, who brought to them the ripe fruit of experience and sought to quicken in them devotion to the life in God and for men, the life which he himself so ardently lived...
...Adopted a resolution authorizing that $4,250,000 be spent to combat the Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida...
...last month, a U. S. Department of Agriculture employe cut open an orange, prepared to sink his teeth into it, halted at a horrid sight?maggots! He fairly ran to a laboratory where, under a microscope, he made a terrible discovery: the grubs were larvae of Halterophora capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly), most vicious and destructive of dipterous pests, never before found in the U. S. Out went the alarm over Florida. Inspection showed that the infestation had spread through three counties ?Seminole, Orange and Lake American Legionaries volunteered as fruit inspectors...
...Adopted a resolution authorizing that $4,250,000 be spent to combat the Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida...