Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hothouse. The Norwegians wanted textiles, offered timber and wood pulp in exchange. Belgium wanted wheat for plate glass. Italy wanted metals for fruit and human labor. Every morning a truck delivered to the economists more than half a ton of paper which by nightfall was covered with figures and graphs recording Europe's needs and resources. In the glass-topped Grand Palais, which looked and felt like a hothouse, electric fans set small siroccos swirling over the delegates' heads. The temperature neared 100° F. Sighed a policeman: "It sure takes guts to work in there...
...Francisco, 60-year-old Francis Van Wie asked the Superior Court to remove him from a fruit ranch to which he was paroled after being convicted of bigamy two years ago. Van Wie, an ex-streetcar conductor who married 13 wives before the law caught up with him, wept as he explained his request: college boys, working on the ranch during the summer, kept calling him the "Ding Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line...
...Today this exchange is disrupted. German coal miners in the Ruhr produce less because they get less food. Italy's fruit and wheat would go a long way to boosting the morale of Ruhr miners and to raising their output. On the other side, German coal and steel would do a lot to improve northern Italy's industrial production...
...much chance has it anyway? Nobody can say until the work now beginning in Paris (see INTERNATIONAL) comes to fruit next September. But the prospects are far from hopeless. Apparently the Kremlin thinks the "Marshall approach" is a pretty good move-on the U.S. side of the board. Before Molotov in Paris turned down the invitation to participate, the argument in Moscow's Politburo may have gone like this...
...powers to "keep chiselers out." Papa, they thought, was the man who knew best how to do that. And despite his sweetly reasonable air, it was testified that Papa would indeed put a merchant out of business, if he did not go along with him. Fred H. Vahlsing, wholesale fruit-&-vegetable jobber, testified that when he refused to sign a union contract in 1945, Papa had forced him to shut up shop. Out-of-town members of Papa's union had to pay his local an "unloading fee" of from $2.50 to $14.28 on any truck they drove into...