Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexicans Arévalo's brave words may have sounded like mention of rope in the house of the hanged; Mexico today is pondering how to attract foreign capital to help reorganize her hopelessly inefficient oil industry. But Arevalo had a purpose. He was talking at the United Fruit Co., whose north coast plantations had been paralyzed for four weeks by the largest strike in Guatemalan history...
Nobody in his senses believed that Guatemala seriously contemplated expropriating the United Fruit's immense, highly mechanized plantations. With a bark fiercer than his bite, Arévalo in his 20 months of rule had not even got around to using his constitutional power to revise the company's 50-year exemption from new taxation. But his bold speechifying had an immediate effect: next day the strike was suspended; United Fruit agreed to rehire hundreds of discharged workers and ordered its ships to resume their calls at the Caribbean port of Puerto Barrios...
...Boss (who roared like a cracked boiler after reading Lillian Smith's best-selling story of miscegenation, Strange Fruit) directed his city commissioners to set up a five-man board to censor literature...
...gentle, easy-living and pious (missionary-converted) people had gracefully consented to move when the Navy told them that a monstrous Thing would blast their island. Rongerik, some 100 miles to the southeast, was just as large, just as green as Bikini, and it had more coconuts and pandanus fruit. By last week Rongerik's huts had tin roofs and wooden floors; there was a big water cistern, a radio, a fine council house. But Rongerik was not home...
...radiation on the human species. Scandinavian scientists may have recognized this last week when a committee of them awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology to 55-year-old Professor Hermann J. Muller of Indiana University, leading authority on radioactive mutations. Nearly 20 years ago he discovered that fruit flies treated with X rays produced "mutated" (changed) offspring. The discovery made him famous among biologists, but the general public never took it personally. No one dreamed that in less than a generation the human race might be treated with X rays, and mutate...