Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, after three months of delicate negotiations in Warsaw, Poland at last dropped its tough demands, and the two sides signed their first long-term trade agreement, a threeyear, $650 million pact exchanging West German machinery and metals for Polish meat, fruit and dairy products. West Germany will send a permanent trade mission to Warsaw, its first permanent outpost in a Soviet satellite land. Bonn officials clearly feel the way is open for similar deals with Hungary and Czechoslovakia...
...culpable as the publishers may be. the key to the newspaper strike remains Bert Powers and his Big Six local. The son of a Massachusetts civil servant, Powers was brought up during the period of "relief money, dried fruit, surplus food stamps, and using the public library for entertainment." He got his first taste of unionism when, at 17, he went to work for a Boston printer for $16 a week. At an I.T.U. local meeting one day, says Powers, a man who was campaigning for union office "told the membership to go easy on contract demands because he knew...
...Arctic cold wave that swept into the South and Southwest this winter has produced some chilly news for U.S. housewives: they are paying more for citrus fruits and juices, and probably will pay more for a long time. Because of the damage to groves and fresh fruit caused by the freakish cold, the price of oranges is already up from 20? to 24? a pound, and the price of frozen orange juice has jumped from 20? to 30? a can. If the housewife has cause to complain, the citrus industry's laments are somewhat muted. For an industry chronically...
...might have sent prices down and left the industry in poor shape. Florida freezes or cans two-thirds of its orange crop, ships out another 7% as chilled products. California oranges are considered less juicy but better and more attractive to eat; 70% of them are sold as fresh fruit. Despite these differences, both regions share common problems. Citrus farming remains the least mechanized part of all agriculture, and growers are trying to perfect practical picking and sorting machines to cut the high cost of labor. Fearful of potential inroads by such synthetic juices as General Foods' Tang, they...
Except for a handful of growers who were wiped out when the frost killed off millions of young trees, the citrus industry still has a ripe future-and will probably continue to expand. Citrus trees begin to yield profitably after five years and bear fruit almost indefinitely, though taxmen write them off in 40 years. The hazards, beyond an occasional frost or round of tree diseases, are small. And the profit, with any kind of effort, is a juicy...