Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vasconcellos Motta-the first South American Cardinals ever to attend a U.S. Congress. New York's Cardinal Spellman told the Congress: "It is folly for us to deceive ourselves that we are at peace, for in truth we know naught for which we fought has come to fruit. The whole world and every human in it today face the greatest crisis in the history of civilization. . . . Man must offer himself to become the 'wheat of Christ' in Christianity's ancient principle of dying to self; or else . . . humanity shall know the graceless and terrible tragedy...
...well-wishers he launched into a spirited eulogy of the U.S.: "A country which has largely solved its principal problems." He wound up on the right patriotic note: "Here also, by the mercy of God, there are to be found gifts of heaven and earth which will always bear fruit if cultivated by friendship, by persevering initiative, by just enterprise and honesty-attributes which Brazilians do not lack...
...Fruit. There was still much planting and cultivation to be done before Brazil would enjoy all the fruits of perfect freedom. So far Congress had failed to make laws translating constitutional guarantees into reality. Said a carioca: "The Constitution promises us a lot of things but we haven't got them yet." Unions are still dominated by the Government under old, repressive Vargas decrees. Only half of Brazil's 5,500,000 school-age children can go to school...
...royal jelly. Royal jelly is exceptionally rich in pantothenic acid (a B vitamin believed to prevent grey hair), and in pyridoxin and biotin (also B vitamins). Dr. Gardner mixed up a brew of these three ingredients and a substance known as sodium yeast nucleate, and fed it to some fruit flies. The exciting result: the Gardner mixture increased the fruit flies' average life span 46%; pantothenic acid alone increased...
...tons of grapes to the acre, v. twelve tons for inferior varieties. For the same reason, their volume is small; last year, they made only 125,000 gallons (50,000 cases). They have only 700,000-gal. storage capacity, compared to 29.8 million for Roma Wine, 22.7 million for Fruit Industries, 22 million for Wine Growers Guild, 19.7 million for Italian Swiss Colony...