Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical report from a local Plant-to-Prosper winner: "We tore down an old outhouse and saved the roofing and flooring to build an additional room to our home. . . . We set out seven shade trees and 25 fruit trees . . . have taken better care of the hens, cows, pigs, garden and truck patches. . . ." One Missouri tenant farmer's wife was so enthusiastic she sewed "Plant-to-Prosper" on her son's basketball uniform...
...before Munich), Greece's George and Rumania's Carol, Yugoslavia's Paul has this simple situation well in mind. Like them he knows the difference between good money and bad, between hard British sterling and phony Nazi export marks. He would naturally rather sell his corn, fruit, iron and bauxite to Britain than to Germany. What probably took him to London, and what had taken Boris, Carol and George, was to see if they could induce Britain to offer more good sterling for more Balkan products. The British Government were glad...
Dignified ladies of Manhattan's first families have been going into Charles & Co. for decades to get the best in damson preserves and Cheddar cheese and other good things. Last week some of them went in to order the famous Charles fruit baskets for friends going off to sea. "Madam," said the clerks, "we have only a few left. We cannot promise." Charles & Co., last of Manhattan's big, elderly, fine-food shops, was selling...
Besides its line of hearty staples, Charles began to stock delicacies high of tang and price-pate with truffles, cocks' combs and kidneys, diamondback rattlesnake. In 1885 it invented the steamer fruit basket, which proved so popular that Charles & Co. registered and still holds the grocery trade-mark "Bon Voyage." By 1929, with a list of steady customers that looked like a distillation of the social register, the com-pany was grossing some $5,000,000 a year...
...Aiken of Vermont cracked: "It looks like a plan to turn New England into a solely recreation area." On the other hand, British farmers complained because Britain, already the principal outlet for U. S. farm goods, abolished duties on U. S. wheat, corn (except flat white), lard, certain canned fruits and fruit juices, and reduced by as much as one-third the duties on rice, apples, pears, other canned fruits. Britain also boosted the quota for hams and gave guarantees that ham and cotton would remain duty free...